Grew Quotes

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

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

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.

Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.

I grew up amongst biologists.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes.

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.