I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of… — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
I just love cars; Ive been like that since I was a kid. Its an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars… — Birdman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me,… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them. — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me. — Cam Gigandet Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into… — Aaron Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of… — Kieran Bew Copy Share Image
There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they… — El-P Copy Share Image
I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I come from a musical family. My dad was in a group in the 70s, The Hudson Brothers. Now he's a songwriter… — Sarah Hudson Copy Share Image
I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years.… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged… — Tina Howe Copy Share Image
Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up. — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall. — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in. — Sarah Ellison Copy Share Image
![“[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.” quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/feb/ta-nehisi-coates-733_ability_grew-up-in-hawaii-that-gave-barack-obama_75931.jpg)
![“[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged New England households, who really never had a chance to flower and assess themselves and find out who they were. More than anything, I wanted to give voice to…” quote by Tina Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6d/tina-howe-64893_century_i-was-particularly-eager-to-give-voice-t_1649709.jpg)
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