Grew Up Quotes

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

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.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

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.

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

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

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 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 grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.

I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

I grew up rock climbing.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I always wanted to be a Blue Peter presenter when I grew up!

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.