Grew Quotes

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.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

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