Grew Up Quotes

America has given me everything Australia couldn't. I grew up on a dairy farm. Now I live in Isleworth, a gated community in Orlando with Tiger Woods down the street.

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

I grew up spear-fishing, so I've always had a breath hold.

I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.

I grew up raised by my mom and my two sisters, so I never had a real male influence in my life. I never really understood heterosexual male relationships.

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

You know I grew up watching the TV series The Rifleman.

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy.

Where I grew up, surfing was a way for people to celebrate their love and respect for the ocean.

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.

I was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.