Grew Up Quotes

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

Super blessed & excited to be part of the Nickelodeon family! It's amazing to be on a network I grew up watching!

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

Everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa... I know what it means to be from Iowa - what we value and what's important... I grew up here in Iowa.

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

I think it comes from the fact that we both grew up in it, and both [me and Donald Trump] saw American dream. And in our own ways, we both lived it.

I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

I was born in Siberia, where the biggest oil reserves in Russia are, and I grew up thinking that there was nothing worse for our planet than the oil industry.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.