Grew Quotes

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

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

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

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

I grew up in a funny way.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.

I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

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.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.