Grew Up Quotes

I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

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.

I grew up on radio, not 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 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 the heart of the Depression.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany.

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

Television and I grew up together.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.