Grew Quotes

I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

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 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.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.