Grew Up Quotes

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them.

I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.

I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where As You Like It is set. It was idyllic.

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.

I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.

I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

How I grew up, everybody was telling me, "You can't do this, you can't get tattoos, you've got to look a certain way." Now, I'm like, "Why?"

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

It's kind of weird to meet people that grew up in films who are still in touch with reality.

As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.

'The Outer Limits' was one of those shows I grew up watching - that and The 'Twilight Zone.'

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

Social media really grew up.

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

I grew up in a household of girls, so I would just pick up naturally what everyone else was doing.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I'm a country girl. I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad was a country singer-songwriter, so it's in my blood and I love it.

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.