Grew up Quotes · Page 40

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I…

— Rick Perry

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

— Ina May Gaskin

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

— Kerry Washington

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would…

— Brett Favre

When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own…

— Roseanne Barr

When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist.…

— Molly Ivins

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

— Ziggy Marley

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And…

— Aisha Tyler

It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South,…

— Joe R. Lansdale

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look…

— Anne Roiphe

To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it,…

— Derek Ridgers

My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people…

— Doug Martsch

I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative…

— Zoe Kazan

My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family,…

— James McBride

I grew up watching Grease, and Grease 2. I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At…

— J. D. Pardo

The weirdest thing about me is that I like to walk around naked. I grew up walking around naked in my house.…

— Jennifer Lopez

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started…

— Ted Turner

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

— Bruno Mars

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel…

— Tweet

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

— Kevin Eubanks

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient…

— Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very…

— Shia LaBeouf

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in…

— Lisa Marie Presley

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

— Sean Harris

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home…

— Devon Werkheiser

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

— Bill Ayers

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

— E. O. Wilson

I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard.…

— Liz Phair

I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having…

— Isabel Lucas

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

— Kevin Spacey

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

— Joe Zee

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in…

— Alicia Keys

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any…

— Vin Diesel

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.

— Paul Weller

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will…

— Tinie Tempah

America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community…

— Stuart Appleby

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

— Steve Clevenger

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life,…

— Lauren Cohan

Black Market, like a lot of teams, is a family for me. Just guys that I grew up with that I trust…

— JD Era