Age Quote by Claressa Shields

I don't know Flint. But Atlanta is a place that made me mentally strong and gave me some real grittiness.

— Alvin Kamara

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

— Tina Turner

I grew up on a fishing village, a little river, South Carolina.

— Scott Bessent

I grew up all over the South. My dad just kind of followed construction.

— Lacey Evans

I grew up originally in Rochester. It was where I was born and a very tough neighbourhood with a lot of violence. I consider…

— Jon Jones

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton…

— Frances Mayes

I was growing up in Kitchener, practising every day on my playground - and it's all about how bad you want it.

— Jamal Murray

I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.

— Borns

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

— Mona Simpson

Growing up in Ridgeville, South Carolina, pretty much all I saw was people working hard.

— A. J. Green

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

— Mary Meeker

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping…

— Natasha Trethewey