Grew Quotes

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.

I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too, that when I grew up I'd look like him.

We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

I grew up Greenville. And I moved to Raleigh some years later.

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

Oh my God, I grew up in the kitchen. Absolutely. The kitchen, for me, is home.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.