Grew Quotes

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I’ve always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on - , from my mom a bit.

I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.