Grew Up Quotes

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

We grew up with so much love in our family.

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 front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

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

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

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

Im a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

When I grew up I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalis.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.