Grew Quotes
- Page 29I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.
Eric Davis
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.
John Corigliano
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
Alison Bechdel
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.
Liam Neeson
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
Rob Zombie
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
Sandra Oh
I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
Huston Smith
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
Juliet Stevenson
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
Chely Wright
This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
Wentworth Miller
I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
Jake Gyllenhaal
I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.
Phil Collins
Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.
Kevin Eubanks
I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.
Jennifer Saunders
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney
I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.
Lily Collins
I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.
Nina Blackwood
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
Mira Nair
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Seamus Heaney