Grew Up Quotes

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

I grew up in the 90s, so Ive definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.

I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

You know, I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.

I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.