Grew Quotes

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.

I grew up babysitting and watching TRL after school. But the fact that I'm part of the whole new scripted development program that they're trying to launch is really awesome.

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.