Grew Quotes

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

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