Grew up Quotes · Page 24

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

— Ian Astbury

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

— Yancy Butler

I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes.

— Kesha

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

— Wolfgang Puck

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

— Katey Sagal

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

— George Sampson

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

— Lee Child

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full…

— Sarah Dessen

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from…

— Gwen Stefani

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of…

— Jonathan Pryce

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque…

— George A. Romero

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

— Huey Lewis

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and…

— Eva Longoria

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

— Peter Bart

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons'…

— Juan Enriquez

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,…

— Ray Bradbury

I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when…

— Jennifer Egan

I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally. The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries,…

— Adam Shankman

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the…

— Dennis Quaid

It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most…

— Jim Gaffigan

Somewhere along the way, without me even noticing, I grew up Alex. For once, I couldn’t take advice from anyone around me…

— Cecelia Ahern

I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes…

— George Clooney

Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for…

— Andy Serkis

Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit,…

— Bart Millard

Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that.…

— Wim Wenders

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought…

— Amitabh Bachchan

There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort…

— Howard Rheingold

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps…

— Abraham Lincoln

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets…

— Walter Bagehot

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is…

— Bruce Springsteen

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

— Sarah Wynter

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

— Steve Kazee

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

— Bradley Cooper

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

— Natasha Leggero

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

— Colum McCann

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

— Glenn Frey

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

— Stark Sands