Grew up Quotes · Page 9

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

— James Iha

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

— Dan Fogler

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.

— Vincent Cassel

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

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

— Kate Fleetwood

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

— Walt Disney

I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

— Dwyane Wade

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

— Liya Kebede

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

— Lars von Trier

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

— Maurice Sendak

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

— Tina Turner

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends.…

— Taylor Lautner

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a…

— Bonnie Bedelia

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I…

— Cher

I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts…

— Chris Hemsworth

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

— Carlton Fisk

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm…

— Hugo Chavez

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

— Miles Teller

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire…

— Emma Roberts

There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through…

— Barack Obama

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study…

— Moran Atias

Hybart is a little community I grew up in, so it was just a wonderful time in those years. I was the…

— Jeff Sessions

I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or…

— Dominic Cooper

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York…

— Anonymous

Most of us grew up with a very damaging story that something is wrong with us. Gradually - or as in my…

— Tara Brach

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope…

— George R. R. Martin

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.…

— Cornel West

I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me…

— Bernie Sanders

So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's…

— Jane Fonda

I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The…

— Andrea Navedo

Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development…

— Adam Beach

At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to…

— Carl Sagan

I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I…

— Mariana Klaveno

[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged…

— Tina Howe

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

— Gary Busey

Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa.

— Michele Bachmann

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

— Daniel Tosh

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

— Bill James