Grew Quotes

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Once I graduated that's when I grew my 'infamous' beard. I trim it every once in awhile but that's about it.

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

I love to exercise because I grew up always playing sports - almost everyday. It's big part of my identity, a time when I can connect with my body, and block out the rest of the world for a while.

I grew up being teased for being overweight.

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.