Grew up Quotes · Page 4

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

— Teresa Heinz

I grew up on radio, not TV.

— David Lee Roth

We grew up with so much love in our family.

— Payne Stewart

I grew up in Minnesota.

— Anonymous

I grew up in the art world.

— Cary Elwes

I grew up in front of a TV.

— Jemaine Clement

I grew up kissing books and bread.

— Salman Rushdie

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

— Jimmie Johnson

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

— Bill Walton

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

— Eddie Van Halen

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

— Ellen Page

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

— Yancy Butler

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

— Ian Astbury

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.

— Cristela Alonzo

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

— Chath Piersath

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

— Kesha

I always enjoyed getting dolled up. I grew up surrounded by a bunch of women so you know there were always hair/makeup,…

— Trina

I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find…

— Katy Perry

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact.…

— Navid Negahban

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

— Penelope Lively

La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the…

— Mark Helprin

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school…

— Denis Leary

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty…

— Bob Dylan

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

— Shakira

With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my…

— Dave Franco

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on,…

— Chris Evans

I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and…

— Morgan Freeman

My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into…

— Princess Superstar

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

— Ella Baker

Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music…

— Madi Diaz

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

— Ewan McGregor

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,…

— Leonard Cohen

I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but…

— George Lopez

I grew up on the sets of Bonanza and most of my (childhood) memory is (on the set of) Little House. I…

— Michael Landon, Jr

I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where…

— Cody Johnson

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

He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel…

— Alice Sebold