Grew up Quotes · Page 52

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though…

— Tim Winton

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away…

— Kate Burton

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in…

— Tom Lehrer

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while…

— Nadia Giosia

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I…

— Rob Corddry

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle…

— Jon Meacham

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who…

— Vanilla Ice

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an…

— Bill Cosby

As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other,…

— Kevin Grevioux

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped…

— Margaret Cho

When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By…

— Roger Waters

My mom grew up in the Philippines, and she would use coconut oil. I put that in my hair always - literally,…

— Shay Mitchell

I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And…

— John Varvatos

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but…

— Hans Zimmer

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now…

— Katy Perry

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in…

— Mario Balotelli

I'm still rough around the edges. I grew up with not a lot of money, and just played sports my whole life.…

— Justin Bieber

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

— Dave Eggers

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

— Jordana Brewster

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a…

— Bonnie Raitt

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun…

— Gigi Hadid

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

— Eric Shinseki

Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.

— Yaya Han

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

— Jill Scott

I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more…

— Jorja Fox

I worried about playing God (in the movie Oh God). We're about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods.

— George Burns

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to…

— Jools Holland

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

— Bobby McFerrin

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

— Karin Slaughter

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The…

— Kate DiCamillo

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the…

— Condola Rashad

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

— Chuck Berry

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on…

— William H. Macy

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

— Shay Mitchell

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite…

— Drew Hayden Taylor

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my…

— Jessica Simpson