“To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.” CountryPastGrewGrew UpEnglandSells Author:Vinnie Jones
“The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.” YoungLeftMillionsFiveGenerationsGrewGrew UpEnglandPropertyHearingDamageRiotBrits Author:Bob Barr
“I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.” CitiesNew YorkGrewDadGrew UpEnglandMy DadLondonNew York City Author:J. C. Chandor
“I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.” PlayEasyStuffParentTeacherTvsGrewMomDadLessonsGrew UpTrainingEnglandMusicalMy MomPopsPianoThemeMotivatedPortionsSaxophonePiano LessonThematicHeydayPiano Teachers Author:Gerard Cox
“I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.” WayChildhoodGrewGrew UpEnglandNostalgiaBritainMulticultural Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.” FilmSawsStudentsGrewGrew UpHollywoodEnglandBritishLondonManchester Author:Mike Leigh
“I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.” IfsLooksGovernmentMorningStreetsGrewGrew UpWindowEnglandWake UpAssBad Ass80sDaleks Author:Warren Ellis
“At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.” NeedsSaidBornRoomsGrewGrew UpEnglandYeahFolksMeatHouseholdEnglishmenLiverpoolLonger Life Author:Mike Myers
“I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.” ThinkingLittlesFunGrewGrew UpEnglandGreekLatinTurned OffLatin And Greek Author:Freeman Dyson
“I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.” MeanSchoolWinningLeftTeachingGrewGrew UpEnglandPhysicsPrizeBiologyChemistryNobelNobel Prize Author:Freeman Dyson
“People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.” PeopleCountryArtistListeningGrewHealthySceneGrew UpStonesEnglandWestBobRollingCaptainsDylanRolling StonesNinaHowlin WolfCaptain Beefheart Author:PJ Harvey
“I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard and people are mean. And there's no president of England and I'm not British.” PeopleIfsMeanHardKidsWantedLife IsPresidentActingGrewGrew UpEnglandBritishLife Is Hard Author:Riley Keough
“I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.” WellsKindDoeSeemsSongCoursesGrowsGrowing UpGrowingCenturyListeningGrewGrew UpEnglandObvious21st CenturyCuzObvious ThingsOld Music Author:George Ezra
“My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldJobsFatherOpportunitySawsGrewGrew UpEnglandTownsYeahUniversityNew WorldCoalBetter LifeMiningTextilesCoal MiningBradford Author:Aasif Mandvi
“I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."” SaidHateHouseGrewGrew UpEnglandBricksEnglishmenBricklayers Author:Carl Andre
“Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live in New England, or in a remote wilderness we're featuring in one of my series - I love to be in the field and I love to explore.” TodayEnvironmentFieldsGrewGrew UpEnglandSeriesWoodsWildernessExploringNew EnglandHabitatCoastal Author:Jeff Corwin
“When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.” FeelsWritingBookFeltMinesGrewGrew UpDecidedEnglandCatholicMovedOfficialsBritainMarchSomewhere ElseCradlePostcardsEnglish HistoryExtractionCromwell Author:Hilary Mantel
“I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.” LoveChildhoodGrewGrew UpEnglandMathematicsEarly ChildhoodCambridge Author:Andrew Wiles
“Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.” WellsGrewGrew UpEnglandPoliceLondon Author:Tony Greig