Grew Quotes

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I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. — Aleksandar Hemon
I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in… — Jesmyn Ward
I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that.… — Kreayshawn
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room,… — Jane Austen
The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells.… — Sarah
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. — D. H. Lawrence
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew… — Gary North
As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type;… — Victoria Moran
I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up. — Sandy Duncan
Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised. — Hayley Atwell
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was… — Frida Giannini
I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs. — Sebastian Junger
I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts… — Chris Parnell
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was… — Mike Rowe
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged. — Peter De Vries
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made… — George A. Romero
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. — Berkeley Breathed
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees,… — Leo Buscaglia
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play… — Joe Gibbs
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me. — Barbara Kingsolver
I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain. — Bill Bryson
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur… — Richard Dawkins
I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury. — Gloria Steinem
One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters. — William Kamkwamba

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