Grew Quotes

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

I grew up in New York.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in LA and had nothing to do with the industry.

...and down they forgot as up they grew.

I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.