Grew up Quotes · Page 34

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each…

— Lucinda Williams

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

— Lisa Whelchel

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

— Hilarie Burton

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our…

— Eric Thomas

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV,…

— Jason Bateman

I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up…

— Jeff Ament

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up.…

— Talib Kweli

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the…

— Eric Andre

I have a real hunger to experience life. I'm really, really inspired by my family. I grew up with my family, really…

— Omar Benson Miller

There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through…

— Barack Obama

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study…

— Moran Atias

My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor.…

— Manny Pacquiao

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire…

— Emma Roberts

I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the…

— Justin Allgaier

My neighborhood was a great neighborhood; it was filled with all sorts of ethnic groups and things. So I grew up thinking…

— Chita Rivera

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

— Varg Vikernes

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my…

— Norah Jones

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a…

— James Purdy

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

— Jan Karon

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

— Chris O'Dowd

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in…

— Lewis Hamilton

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life.…

— Todd Phillips

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

— Aziz Ansari

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

— Jim Gaffigan

I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.

— George Lucas

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

— Pam Grier

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of…

— Chris Hardwick

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army…

— Michelle Shocked

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and…

— Josh Turner

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor,…

— Mike Huckabee

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

— Axel Alonso

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

— Johan Lindeberg

I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both [me and Donald Trump] saw American…

— Mike Pence

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.

— Dani Shapiro

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I…

— Matthieu Ricard

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was…

— Ed Westwick

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

— Roman Coppola