Grew Quotes

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.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

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.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

I grew up in Tom DeLay's district.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.