Grew Up Quotes

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

I grew up in newsrooms. I've been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it's been like my identity.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.

We grew up with so much love in our family.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.