Grew Quotes

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

Javy [Baez] grew up in Puerto Rico, played a lot of baseball as a youth, played a lot of winter ball. He's been taught properly and well.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

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 those older musicals and revivals grew.

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

I grew up rock climbing.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

Once I slapped a rapper with mace, Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait... I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.

In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another. For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which. . . .

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.

I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.