Grew up Quotes · Page 39

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and…

— Bob Dylan

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was…

— Lucy Hale

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old…

— Hilary Mantel

So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

— Kate Upton

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're…

— John Ritter

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

— Carrie Fisher

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

— Junot Diaz

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great…

— Sally Field

I was born in Norfolk, Virginia. I began school there, the first year of public school. When I was 7, the family…

— Ella Baker

I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then…

— Nico Tortorella

I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the…

— Ewan McGregor

When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I…

— Jack Jason

[My mother] was the oldest of two sisters and two brothers, and she grew up with her brothers, who were about her…

— Indira Gandhi

I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking... I told Trev this is an old…

— John Vanbiesbrouck

I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food…

— Nadia Giosia

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood;…

— Al Pacino

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

— Zac Efron

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good…

— Taylor Kinney

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey,…

— LaToya London

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless…

— Shenae Grimes

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering,…

— Nadia Comaneci

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with…

— Bobby McFerrin

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to…

— Ashley Madekwe

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me…

— John Tesh

I still have my girlfriends that I grew up with. We went to day care together ... we just feel comfortable with…

— Britney Spears

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten,…

— Brad Pitt

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I…

— Jake Epstein

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

— Zainab Salbi

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until…

— Courtney Barnett

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully…

— Kim Harrison

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm…

— Ellen Page

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it…

— Joe Perry

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

— Bruno Zheng Wu

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

— David Lynch

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a…

— Al Pacino

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

We all grew up as huge wrestling fans, and we need to understand why we liked it so much.

— Triple H