Grew Quotes

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking... I told Trev this is an old wound with me. I grew up with it. I am sorry as anybody that it stuck with me.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

I grew up, especially as an actor thinking that I had to move to New York to be a good actor. But after a while you start to live the world a little bit and you start to appreciate where you're from.

I grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

From when I was born, my dad would dance with me in his arms, and I would watch my siblings dancing around in the living room. I just grew up with that. That was just my life.

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where As You Like It is set. It was idyllic.

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.