Grew up Quotes · Page 28

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

— Janice Dickinson

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

— Margaret Atwood

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

— Bitsie Tulloch

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

— LeCrae

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

— Ai Weiwei

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

— Sandy Duncan

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors,…

— Ben Stiller

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble,…

— Hilarie Burton

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through…

— Nicholas Negroponte

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk…

— Jerry O'Connell

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

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a…

— Anonymous

For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds…

— Douglas Tompkins

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience…

— Josh Duhamel

I grew up in Louisiana, a lot of carbohydrates, fried foods, all very good. Butter, lots of homemade cakes and cookies. Here…

— Ali Landry

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever… pneumonia… Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years…

— Wilma Rudolph

We instinctively fear snakes, but we appear not to be afraid of fast cars, which are a real danger now. This suggests…

— Steven Pinker

I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was…

— Janet Jackson

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used…

— Rick Danko

I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew…

— Neko Case

When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted…

— Adam Young

Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is…

— Tom Glavine

I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to…

— Howard Shore

I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come…

— Bernie Siegel

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must…

— Cary Grant

It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such…

— David Lammy

We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when…

— Cynthia Heimel

We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew…

— Stephen Kendrick

My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in…

— Carl Gardner

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

— Kurt Braunohler

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

— Ruth Negga

I love the Digital Era! I grew up in a time that started from cassette tapes.

— Yukmouth

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

— Gilda Radner

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

— Ronnie Dunn

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

— Rob Lowe

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