Grew Up Quotes

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I grew up being teased for being overweight.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

I grew up cursing a lot.

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.