Grew Quotes

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.

I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

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.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.