Grew Quotes

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

I really didn't know a lot of rock 'n' roll until I moved to L.A. Before that, when I was in New York, I grew up listening mostly to R&B and soul and jazz.

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

I grew up very introverted and I'm still a very introverted person, so to me it's about constantly just pushing and pushing out of your comfort zone because that where you're going to grow the most.

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.