Grew Quotes

I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.

Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.

Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.

America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

I married somebody who is very secure. He's been in my corner from the time we met, and we grew in this together.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

I grew. Going outside my comfort zone is a big one for me.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.