Grew up Quotes · Page 62

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

— Denise Mina

I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved…

— Evan Peters

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his…

— Action Bronson

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in…

— Rod Blagojevich

I actually grew up thinking that sex was absolutely terrifying and that it would kill you.

— Amanda Seyfried

Nobody knows who Barry Crump is, anywhere, but in New Zealand he's huge. I am of that age, where I sort of…

— Sam Neill

I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any…

— Brad Pitt

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

— Vera Farmiga

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 grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

— Anonymous

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not,…

— John Ruskin

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

— Beck

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green…

— Justin Townes Earle

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

I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's…

— Bonnie McFarlane

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew…

— C. Everett Koop

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It…

— Anonymous

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

— George Sampson

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one…

— Leonard Slatkin

My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted…

— Mike Huckabee

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

— Felicia Day

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood,…

— Mili Avital

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

— Gilda Radner

I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]…

— Eddie Vedder

I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.

— Manny Pacquiao

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother…

— Ryan Gosling

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

— Lenny Kravitz

I hope to encourage some people out there, especially all the mixed, curly-headed babies of the world, stand up, we are here!…

— Kevin michael

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the…

— Kelly Clarkson

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute…

— Debi Mazar

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two…

— Juliet Stevenson

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at…

— Viola Davis

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

— Tom Morello

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

— Jewel

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 was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was…

— Richard Meale