Grew up Quotes · Page 27

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

— Neil Drumming

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

— Frank Moore Cross

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

— Bill James

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

— Emmanuel Jal

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

— Patricia Arquette

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

— Tanc Sade

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

— Rebecca Hall

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

— Poppy Montgomery

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

— Paul Kagame

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to…

— Will Oldham

Big brows weren’t the look in L.A., where I grew up. But my mom instilled in me that it’s the quirky things…

— Lily Collins

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up…

— Greta Gerwig

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for…

— Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain…

— Penelope Cruz

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when…

— Dean Ornish

Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just…

— J.H. Wyman

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I…

— Alicia Keys

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and…

— David Douglas

If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That…

— Gary Chapman

My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city.…

— Luca Parmitano

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and…

— Jean Liedloff

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael…

— Tyson Gay

I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that…

— Alexander Koch

I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or…

— Ralph Stanley

It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings,…

— Bernard Lewis

It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and…

— Mike Coffman

And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many…

— Nora Ephron

I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't…

— Andrew Dice Clay

When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media.…

— Julie Zeilinger

BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor…

— Ambrose Bierce

When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and…

— Naturi Naughton

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

— Christopher Durang

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

— Phil McGraw

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

— Joan Van Ark

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

— Italia Ricci

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

— Caroline Rhea

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

— Anita Diament