Grew Quotes

I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

I didnt set out with the notion of running for elective office; it sort of grew over time. And I honestly at times questioned if progressive change can be effected through elected office.

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

I grew up in California, which was not - at least in the '50s and '60s - a cultural oasis by any means. Certainly not Orange County, anyway.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.

I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

I still have my girlfriends that I grew up with. We went to day care together ... we just feel comfortable with each other. We're honest, we're total goofs.

There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an expression for people who grew up with it.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

I grew up with British rock.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

I grew up a diehard Yankees fan.

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.