Grew Up Quotes

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

I just celebrated my fourth birthday on the set, my fourth birthday cake. So it's been awhile and, you know, I grew up with these guys.

The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that gardens were important and they were for sharing.

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.

I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

I grew up watching Grease, and Grease 2. I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. Id love the challenge now.

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

Music just runs in my family. My dad and my uncles are a gospel quartet, Latimore Brothers. They've been doing their thing ever since I was a kid, so I just kind of grew up around that.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.