Grew up Quotes · Page 23

I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

— Tim Duncan

We're all just kids who grew up way too fast.

— Luke Hemmings

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

— Mary Oliver

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

— Melissa Etheridge

Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.

— Kurt Braunohler

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

— Dwyane Wade

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

— Liya Kebede

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and…

— Bryan Stevenson

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES…

— Steve Young

On cable TV they have a weather channel - 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up.…

— Dan Spencer

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew…

— Anonymous

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier…

— Patrick Stewart

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

— Chad Hugo

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the…

— Kelly Clarkson

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they…

— Gail Collins

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns,…

— Erica Jong

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should…

— Summer Sanders

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some…

— Kevin Gates

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that…

— Rebecca Hall

I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor… My brothers…

— Mary Robison

I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There…

— Holly McPeak

Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he's huge. I am of that age, where I sort of…

— Sam Neill

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,…

— Drew Barrymore

I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I…

— Mariana Klaveno

Listen- my relationship with radio on a personal level is nothing but a one way love-a-thon... I love radio, I grew up…

— Bernie Finkelstein

I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.…

— Warsan Shire

I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to…

— Killer Mike

I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that…

— Roger Ross Williams

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like…

— Elizabeth Neel

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half…

— Adrienne Rich

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

— Lars von Trier

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

— Hunter Parrish

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

— Kate Fleetwood

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

— Walt Disney

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

— Quentin S. Crisp

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

— Amy Poehler

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

— Tony Visconti