“I'm just appreciative of everything that has happened in my life. I'm overwhelmed, sometimes, by this. When I see where I grew up and the places I've been, it puts a smile on my face because of all the people there I can help. I give them food; I give them money; I try to provide them with a good lifestyle, and do the best I can because that's where I came from. Those are my people.” PeopleGivingTryingI CanSometimesHelpingFacesHappenedGrewGrew UpLifestyleGood LifeOverwhelmedDo The BestAppreciativeSmile On My FacePlaces I've Been Author:Manny Pacquiao
“I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.” PeopleSituationGrewGrew UpTownsIsolatedShellsCraving Author:Debra Granik
“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.” PeopleSaidCountryYoungSongFatherMistakeRecordsPiecesCenturyGrewPaperGrew UpSacredNotesPianoRepeatsTunesHeritagePeasantsDon't ChangeChoirFiddleGospel Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a valued trait. That`s why I had to learn kindness. As I grow older I'm finding it's something I definitely need to put focus on, thought and practice. Kindness actually comes from the heart, so it's really stretching inside of me. It's been quite a magical journey for me to learn to be kinder in my dealing[s] with other people.” PeopleNeedsHeartSchoolGrowsPracticeKindnessFocusJourneyMilitaryFootballGrewFindingsGrew UpHuntingTraitsMarineStretchingMarine CorpsKinderPlaying FootballMilitary School Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.” PeopleYearsSchoolThreeLiteratureCollegeGrewGrew UpOddThree YearsGraduatesHarvardYaleGraduate SchoolComparative Literature Author:Lev Grossman
“Whenever I hear an American say Aussies drive on the 'wrong side of the road,' I just lose it. You ever think about how those people grew up driving on the 'wrong side of the road,' watched a lot of people get hurt on the 'wrong side of the road,' die on the 'wrong side of the road,' while other people cheered from the 'right side of the road'? Australia has a thing called Highway Fights, so it's touchy.” PeopleThinkingDiesFightingSidesLosesHurtGrewGrew UpDrivingAustraliaHighwaysTouchyAussiesDriving On Author:Russell Crowe
“I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.” PeopleThinkingStatesHelpingProblemUnitedUnited StatesGrewGrew UpSolveArtisticServantPermissionCivil Servants Author:Wallace Shawn
“You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people Id meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.” PeopleKnowsKindKidsRememberCoursesWaitingJourneyGrewGrew UpBusFruitionAmazing People Author:Glen Hansard
“I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.” PeopleHomeSchoolFatherNamesFeltClassGrewGrew UpPicksMajorityActressesMinoritiesOutsidersDaddyPick MePick Me Up Author:Cherie Lunghi
“I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryFatherForceFeltSupportAirBrotherDutyGrewHonorGrew UpArmySoldierWarriorMy BrotherOfficersGrandfatherMy GrandfatherAir ForceKinship Author:Kris Kristofferson
“I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.” PeopleMeanLanguageWonderfulGenerationsCommunicationGrewGrew UpPercentFourthDeafAccessibilityDeafnessLanguage And CommunicationImmediate Family Author:Shoshannah Stern
“I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.” PeopleWantTryingStoriesFatherGamesFootballGrewGrew UpIdolsTelling Stories Author:Cam Newton
“I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.” PeopleForgetGrewProudGrew UpSoccerNever ForgetMadrid Author:Zinedine Zidane
“I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.” PeopleKindGamesSportsAttitudeWatchesGrowing UpGrowingFootballBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherObservingTeammateMy AttitudeFootball GameWatching Sports Author:Eli Manning
“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.” PeopleWorldPlayBigsUsedCasesGrowing UpGrowingStreetsGrewGrew UpTownsGuitarThrownFestivalsOntario Author:Justin Bieber
“I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.” PeopleEvilEnvironmentGrewRepublicanGrew UpDemocratSupposed To BeRacistDetroitEvil People Author:Benjamin Carson
“With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.” PeopleMenGrewGrew UpMadMad Men Author:Cara Buono
“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHomeLawGirlFatherRealizingClassMiddleGrewSafeOfficeGrew UpRadioClubsMiddle ClassHotelStationsChicagoSteelDaddyNursingMillsRadio StationsNursing HomeMotels Author:LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
“If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsPersonsLongFeelingsPainJobsFeltStruggleGrowing UpGrowingFashionLike YouSourceGrewGrew UpLong TimeImpactDisappearInvisibleEnormousOur FamilyVisibleFadingFading Away Author:Bruce Springsteen
“There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.” PeopleNeedsFeelsArtistEvilCompanySupportRecordsGenerationsGrewGrew UpMusic IsBuyingRecord CompaniesYounger Generation Author:Bob Mould
“I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.” PeopleThinkingSelfBodyWantedMy OwnExpressionGrewGrew UpClaimsJoyfulTattooSelf ExpressionTattooedReally Positive Author:Margaret Cho
“I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt yard. Never in my life should I have been a success. So that's what I love about this country [USA], is you get out there and you have the opportunity and you work hard at it, and you can be a success.” PeopleShouldHas BeensCountryHardDreamOpportunityHard WorkGrewGrew UpUsaAmerican DreamShould IDirtYardsAirports Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.” PeopleBornGrewMetsGrew UpCrowds Author:Carolyn Wells
“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.” PeopleKnowsTryingStillsWholeCareKidsTurnsGrowsProcessParentEffortGrowing UpGrewHealthySkillsNormalGrew UpToleranceDespiteAwfulHelpfulStrongestImperfectPsychotic Author:Frank Pittman
“I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land - not to mention all Mexican people - will agree that its not difficult to love Mexico.” PeopleThinkingWayDifficultBornFeetLandGrewGrew UpAgreeMexicoMexican Author:Emiliano Salinas
“I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.” PeopleIfsFeelsSeemsCrazyGrewNormalGrew UpBehaveOutsidersWeirdo Author:Young Jean Lee
“When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'” PeopleMenSaidHe ManGrewDadGrew UpYour Dad Author:Rip Torn
“I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.” PeopleMeanFacesFatherGrewGrew UpRootsHelpfulProtestantsEvangelicalFundamentalistGod ImagePharisees Author:William P. Young
“I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.” PeopleFactsProblemGrewGrew UpActressesLatinAssetsMexicoAccents Author:Salma Hayek
“I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?” PeopleFeelsBookHappensAmericaReadingGrewKingsGrew UpHappeningsTownsNostalgiaWorldlySmall TownDemonic Author:Alexander Koch
“My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.” PeopleKindDifferentGrewGrew UpDifferent KindsEmpatheticHumanisticDifferent ReligionsInfatuated Author:Lily Tomlin
“Led Zeppelin, they still rule the airwaves. I hear Zeppelin every day, and they've been around since '69. So the people who grew up with that still listen to that, and now their children listen to it.” PeopleChildrenStillsGrewGrew UpZeppelins Author:George Thorogood
“I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.” PeopleThinkingCultureCommunityChurchCitiesGrewGrew UpUnderstoodTownsMeant To BeGracious Author:Shane Harper
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.” PeopleStillsFatherPoorPovertyMissingChangedGrewGrew UpPoor PeopleThings ChangeDiplomatsSomalia Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.” PeopleCountryDoneRealityKidsTogetherGuyHateCausesBlackWhiteOne ThingListeningGrewGrew UpHip HopEnormousLike MeHipsHopsBlack PeopleExposedFrighteningMtvCamaraderie Author:Michael Rapaport
“People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.” PeopleYearsExampleGrewGrew UpGrandparent Author:Andre Agassi
“I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.” PeopleAttentionComedyGrewGrew UpCaptureFascinated Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.” PeopleThinkingSaidWantedStarsStuffNaturalRocksGrewBandKissingGrew UpHeySatRock StarTheatricalIconicMercuryMisfitsBowieLarger Than Life Author:Andy Biersack
“I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."” PeopleBigsFacesAttitudeBoysSeeingGrewGrew UpTownsBoresTime Of My LifeBores YouOld Places Author:Johnny Carson
“I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUsedStuffGrewGrew UpUniqueEmbraceMetaphorRelateRelatable Author:Hoodie Allen
“MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT TRYING TO MAKE ANY SOCIAL POLITICAL POINT, NOR AM I TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF REDNECKS. I GREW UP A COUNTRY KID AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. I GREW UP WITH PEOPLE THAT SAID CERTAIN THINGS FUNNY AND I PREFORM USING THE SAME LANGUAGE BECAUSE I FIND IT HYSTERICLE. THATS IT. ITS A COMEDY SHOW THAT IS FUNNY AND THATS IT.” PeopleTryingSaidCountryShowsKidsPoliticalCertainLanguageFunSocialComedyGrewGrew UpMovedSouthSouthernRedneckComedy Shows Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“Some people grew up in the '70s, powerful, beautiful memories of the '70s which to me is one of the worst decades. It has something to do with that. Has something to with the birth of rock 'n' roll, and something to do with those American cars. an incredible design. There was so much optimism at that time and it must leak into the process.” PeopleBeautifulProcessMemoriesPowerfulWorstRocksCarDesignGrewBirthGrew UpOptimismIncrediblesDecadesRock N RollLeaksBeautiful MemoriesAmerican Cars Author:David Lynch
“I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsShouldLittlesHas BeensMatterMightWantedGrowsGrowing UpSawsWiseMinutesRocksMaterialsGrewGrew UpPerformancesExcitingVersionsComedianBoredRock N RollMight Have Been Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingKindHomeCertainFictionBoysFieldsGrewLateMarriedGrew UpScience FictionMamaMama's Boy Author:Ray Bradbury
“There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an expression for people who grew up with it.” PeopleThinkingShouldValuesExpressionGrewGrew UpAppreciateMusicalReserved Author:Bruce Molsky
“Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.” PeopleReasonEnjoyLosesSawsHavensGrewGrew UpSouthernAccentsFlavorConsternationSouthern Accent Author:Roy Blount, Jr.
“Where I grew up, surfing was a way for people to celebrate their love and respect for the ocean.” PeopleWayGrewOceanGrew UpCelebrateSurfingLove And Respect Author:Tristan Prettyman
“Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.” PeopleDifferentStreetsGrewGrew UpCamerasInspiredVideoDifferent ThingsRiotLettermanVideo CamerasRockefeller Center Author:Tom Green
“Like, a lot of people I know are wanting to get back to the Earth in some way and not raise their kids in this world of Apps and Internet all the time. I grew up on a river in New Jersey and I was in fantasy land. I could do anything.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayKidsEarthFantasyLandThis WorldGrewInternetGrew UpRiversRaisesGet BackJerseyNew JerseyApps Author:Kirsten Dunst