Grew up Quotes · Page 53

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years,…

— Kevin Smith

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

— Rick Alverson

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

— Adam Oates

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

— T. D. Jakes

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look…

— Larenz Tate

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think…

— Paul Beatty

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and…

— Angela Ahrendts

My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed…

— Samuel Alito

When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and…

— Jennifer Garner

I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life…

— Shayne Ward

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship…

— Kenzaburo Oe

I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end…

— LaMarcus Aldridge

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s…

— George Thorogood

I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him…

— Mic Geronimo

I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot…

— Michael Jai White

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a…

— Justin Smith

I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

— Cherie Lunghi

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There…

— Alanis Morissette

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive…

— Sean Price

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the…

— Michelle Forbes

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father.…

— Gloria Gaynor

I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

— Jemima West

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that…

— Louis C. K

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and…

— Hooman Majd

Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!

— Dylan Moran

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!

— Eva LaRue

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s…

— Jessica Pare

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very…

— Lucretia Mott

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a…

— Trey Songz

When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard…

— Alain de Botton

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break…

— Pink

Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's…

— Francesco Totti

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

— Emeril Lagasse

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

— Johann Hari

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the…

— Justin Cronin

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening…

— Josephine de La Baume

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

— James Vincent McMorrow