Grew up Quotes · Page 47

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'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 grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African…

— Linda Ronstadt

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New…

— Robert Pattinson

My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the…

— Khaled Hosseini

I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like…

— Grimes

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird…

— Mark Ruffalo

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were…

— Smokey Robinson

When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos…

— Sinead O'Connor

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

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

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

— Roseanne Barr

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

— Ziggy Marley

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

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

— Brett Favre

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

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

— Milla Jovovich

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was…

— Jennifer Weiner

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