Best Grew Up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.”

Black Environment Grew Grew Up Southern Jeans Sweden Bohemian

“I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.”

Way Kind School Grows Growing Up Grew Months Grew Up High School Shooting Odd Maturity

Author:Logan Lerman

“My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.”

Feels Whole Week Grew Grew Up Let Me Checks Spine Whole Family Prosthetics Scoliosis

Author:Logan Lerman

“Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.”

Wells Grew Grew Up Tough Neighborhood

Author:Kent McCord

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

Feels Church Grew Grew Up Very Strong

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.”

Kind Film Grew Grew Up Europe

Author:Jodie Foster

“I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.”

Want Film Moving Used Culture Tvs Grew Grew Up Europe Faster

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.”

Writing Character Guy Girl Community Boys Novel Nice Grew Grew Up My Friends Expected Exception Bad Guys My Boyfriend Good Girl Good Boy

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.”

Mind Real Wanted Changed College Grew Grew Up Doctors Lawyer Occupation

Author:Tia Mowry

“I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.”

Mean I Can Able Remember Fun Stuff Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Riding Rope

Author:Tim McGraw

“I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.”

Grew Lucky Projects Grew Up Blessed Brooklyn

Author:Tracy Morgan

“My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.”

Men Teacher Grew Grew Up Rose Patient Including Peers Nurturing Admiring Cellists

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.”

Earth Grew Grew Up Movie Sets Magical Places

Author:Zosia Mamet

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.”

Years Building Grew Skills Grew Up Income Shops Theatrical Scenery

Author:Nick Offerman

“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.”

Bigs Light School Used Night Bits Football Grew Grew Up High School Track Texas Friday Friday Night Antonio Night Light San Antonio Friday Night Lights

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.”

Remember Grew Grew Up Fantastic Egypt Cyprus

Author:Tea Obreht

“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”

People Knows Trying Too Much Listening Grew Grew Up Roots Punk Emphasis

Author:Will Oldham

“I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.”

Years Wanted Acting Class Saws Grew Involved Grew Up Managers Agency Michigan Missouri

Author:Evan Peters

“I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.”

Rocks Fronts Grew Grew Up Mirrors Tennis Rock N Roll Racket

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.”

Home Kids Childhood New York Grew Grew Up Sick Asthma Sick Kids

Author:Josh Peck

“I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.”

Ifs Reading Sports Grew Grew Up Newspapers Checks Sections Wrestler

Author:Michael Pena

“I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.”

Kind Art Real Acting Serious Grew Grew Up Martial Arts

Author:Jody Hill

“My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.”

States Parent Born Grew Grew Up Brazil

Author:Arto Lindsay

“I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.”

Home Kids Grew Grew Up Catholic Violent Traditional Lottery Parental Catholic Family

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.”

House Grew Mom Grew Up Ran Portuguese

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.”

Stills Grew Band Grew Up This Day Itunes

Author:Greg Laswell

“I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.”

Natural Grew Grew Up Paradise San Francisco County

Author:Huey Lewis

“I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.”

Country Song Class Teaching Listening Grew Dad Grew Up Guitar My Dad Classic Keith Playing Guitar Haggard

Author:Jake Owen

“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.”

Thinking Knows Play Wanted America Actors Middle Grew Grew Up My Family Princess Brides Princess Bride Middle America

Author:Missi Pyle

“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.”

People Doe Country Pride Grew Achievement Grew Up Socialist No Hope Socialist Countries

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.”

Born Grew Grew Up Towns Small Town Idaho

Author:Aaron Paul

“Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.”

Want Dream Film Goal Community Class Impossible Tvs Baby Grew Grew Up Lows Western East Profession Cinema Asian Ender

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I grew up in Plano, Texas.”

Grew Grew Up Texas

Author:Hunter Parrish

“My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.”

Childhood Grew Mom Dad Grew Up My Dad Boring My Mom Indiana Kansas

Author:Hunter Parrish

“I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.”

Way Stage Grew Projects Grew Up

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.”

Way Made Play Grew Grew Up Chicago

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

School Acting Half Crazy Football Grew Grew Up High School Towns Texas Small Town

Author:Jesse Plemons

“I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.”

House Dog Grew Grew Up Bunch

Author:Lee Pace

“I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.”

People Want Strong Felt Attitude Environment Grew Grew Up Rough Your Presence

Author:Mekhi Phifer

“I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.”

Wells Stills Action Memories Alive Grew Type Grew Up Racism South Painful Sexism Homophobia Words And Actions

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.”

Poor Grew Grew Up My Family Vacation Austria

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.”

World Bigs Environment This World Brother Masters Grew Grew Up Piano My Brother Classical Music

Author:Suzi Quatro

“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”

People Ifs Should Ideas Speak Black White Talking Grew Grew Up Educated Diction

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.”

States Parent Born United United States Grew Citizens Grew Up Britain Egypt American Citizens Seventeen Great Britain Egyptian Malaysia Kuwait

Book:Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America

“I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.”

People Philosophy Certain Belief Parent Millions Media Grew Grew Up Yeah Threat Cult Exposure Pragmatic Belief Systems Scientology

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.”

Grew Grew Up Horse Texas Riding Norway

Author:Jackson Rathbone

“I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.”

Study Grew Grew Up Conservatory Studying Music

Author:Lance Reddick

“I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.”

Realizing Influence Grew Grew Up West Bucks

Author:Lionel Richie

“I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.”

Song Cities Car New York Television Grew Internet Grew Up Hip Hop Radio Hips Excitement Hops Broads New York City Tape 80s Cables Hip Hop Music

Author:Michael Rapaport

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