Grew up Quotes · Page 44

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for…

— Chuck D

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

— Katheryn Winnick

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

— KRS-One

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and…

— Natasha Lyonne

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

— Allan Sloan

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

— Diablo Cody

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

— Jeremy London

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

— Sebastian Junger

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town,…

— Rachel McAdams

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it…

— Ice Cube

If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors…it's not like you think it will…

— Lisa Lutz

What if instead of seeing a neighborhood that reminds you of the place you grew up in, you see your actual neighborhood?…

— Chris Milk

I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and…

— Frida Giannini

I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same…

— MC Lyte

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street,…

— Lynda Barry

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

— Debbie Ford

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

— Nicole Polizzi

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a…

— Al Pacino

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving…

— Michael Eric Dyson

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew…

— Katherine Heigl

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things…

— Anish Kapoor

I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside…

— Dana Gould

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

— Grant Bowler

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

— Allison Janney

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

— FKA twigs

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to…

— Vanilla Ice

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

— Extra P

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed…

— Kathryn Stockett

In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how…

— Yanni

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that…

— Katee Sackhoff

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in…

— Aziz Ansari

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no…

— Bernadette Peters

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

— Milla Jovovich

I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the…

— C. J. Wilson

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest…

— Laura Prepon

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was…

— Herschel Walker