Grew Quotes

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.

I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful - and then go and do drama and comedy as well.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince.

Addams Family blew my mind because it was the first time I was in L.A. and Hollywood, and I grew up a huge fan of movies.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it.

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.