Grew Quotes

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

I was and still am a massive fan of [Murphy] Cillian's work - always have been. Obviously he's a great deal older than me, so I've sort of grew up watching Cillian's work. But I'm very much a fan.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were

I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well.

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.