Grew Up Quotes

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad a little because people grew up watching me and that's a little disturbing.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

I grew up doing musical theater.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

I always enjoyed getting dolled up. I grew up surrounded by a bunch of women so you know there were always hair/makeup, clothes, shoes and other girly things around.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.