Grew Quote by Chester Himes Download Open image “I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.” — Chester Himes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grew Manhood Ohio Ohio state States
I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I'm a Midwestern girl; I was born in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in Dayton until I was ten years old. Then my whole… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago. — Piper Perabo Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family where my brother was in prison. My father was in prison. — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
From age 16 to 26, I literally became a man in prison so it was influential in shaping me. — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American;… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
“Don't ever lean your whole weight on happiness, Jimmy. You fall too hard too hard when it gives away” — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
“For he reached the conclusion that everything he had ever seen, or had ever done, or had ever dreamed of doing would in the… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy. — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal. — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism.… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers. — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
