Grew Up Quotes

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

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.

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 an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

I love the fact I grew up wanting a brother and now I have four.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

I grew up in the Philippines, and I don’t think there is a problem with the typhoon. It’s normal for us.

I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

I was and still am a massive fan of [Murphy] Cillian's work - always have been. Obviously he's a great deal older than me, so I've sort of grew up watching Cillian's work. But I'm very much a fan.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.