“I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.” PeopleWayI CanCountryHardStatesMinutesGrewMountainGrew UpWestWoodsHillsCoalVirginiaLivelihoodMiningKentuckyHard LifeTennesseeWest VirginiaLoggingCoal Mining Author:Ralph Stanley
“I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.” PeopleDifferentGrewGrew UpCatholicAtheistAgnosticMidwestDifferent FaithsCatholic Family Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.” PeopleWayPartyGrewRepublicanGrew UpReactionsRepublican PartyMisunderstoodSegregation Author:Jeff Sessions
“I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.” PeopleNeedsDoeSaidIdeasHoursWhiteWalksHalfGrewGrew UpMajoritySouthConservativeArguingAtmosphereMinoritiesGeorgiaBaptists Author:David Cross
“I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.” PeopleSportsParentClassMiddleGrewGrew UpCoachingMiddle ClassEntrepreneurialInputGreat ParentsGreat Coaching Author:Jerry Jones
“I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him enabled me to meet Nas, Busta, Q-Tip and all these people I looked up to at the time. Even Large himself. He was a good friend but at the same time he was definitely someone I looked up to.” PeopleLooksBigsAbleGrowsGrowing UpInfluenceGrewGrew UpProfessorsGood Friend Author:Mic Geronimo
“I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same with Smokey Robinson. So they were such a huge influence as a child that to actually sit alongside them and perform on the same bill was an amazing experience for me.” PeopleChildrenSongLaughingInfluenceHugeListeningGrewGrew UpSingingBillsCarolsAmazing Experiences Author:MC Lyte
“I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.” PeopleFeelingsWantedGrewGrew UpMaking People HappyPleasers Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.” PeopleRomanceGrewGrew UpNerd Author:Mindy Kaling
“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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsWritingHardUsedForgetIssuesComedyGrewGrew UpJokesTablesIndianMaternity Author:Mindy Kaling
“I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.” PeopleCarGrewGrew UpSouthLos Angeles Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.” PeopleFunGrewGrew UpHorse Author:Gigi Hadid
“I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the same as being in Vermont. Since I grew up on the East Coast I miss that weather all the time. You'd think I'd get used to not having it, but I don't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUsedMissingGrewGrew UpEastWeatherCaliforniaCoastEast CoastVermont Author:Martha Ronk
“I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicle the hero's journey, and have existed for thousands of years. Owen, in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.” PeopleYearsFilmMoralJourneyGrewHeroGrew UpMythGuidesBrilliantI RealizedDietsClassicExpertsThemeFablesChroniclesDisney Film Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.” PeopleMoralGrewGrew UpMythGuidesDietsExpertsThemeFables Author:Roger Ross Williams
“People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.” PeopleUsedGuyTermGrewComfortableGrew UpMalesShirtsClothingsDungarees Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasStatesGovernmentFacesSpeakSoundEffortEconomyTakenGrewMessagesGrew UpRedBlowProtectionAbsurdAlternativesBitesInitiativeGlobal EconomyCushionsNanniesOverboardOf ContextSound Bites Author:Van Jones
“When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.” PeopleThinkingWayMadeIdeasYoungViewsPartyStudentsGrewMetsGrew UpWingsUniversityConservativeExtremesWay Of ThinkingRight WingCountrysideBudapest Author:Csanad Szegedi
“[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsJobsFictionClassCasesGrewReaderEqualGrew UpDrawsArguingFavorsOpeningLabelsGenreMeritAssociationEntertainingOld FashionedOpening UpGenre IsForward Thinking Author:Emily Barton
“I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.” PeopleFirstsPersonsAsksGrewGrew UpAccountsIncrediblesHearingCharlieFirst PersonOld MovieChaplin Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world.” PeopleWorldNeedsKindRunningFormGrewCircumstancesGrew UpAdversityAll Kinds Author:Robert Greene
“I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsMeanChildrenPersonsStillsI CanGrowsGrowing UpGrowingLike YouGrewPersonalityGrew UpMy FriendsRootsReally Like You Author:Ann Patchett
“I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].” PeopleCharacterStrangeGrewGrew UpDoctors Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.” PeopleWayFeelsMadeGrewFameGrew UpTreatsRelativeGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBeing Famous Author:Zoe Kazan
“I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on - , from my mom a bit.” PeopleThinkingKindLittlesRealBitsPracticeGrewMomLittle BitGrew UpMy MomMedicalAdmirationEmpaths Author:Rachel McAdams
“I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.” PeoplePersonsWallGrewGrew UpInspiredObsessedBedroomPostersBedroom Wall Author:FKA twigs
“It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksChildrenLittlesEnoughMy OwnForgetChildhoodPerspectiveGrewGrew UpCreator80s Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.” PeopleKnowsMayHas BeensTwoUsedNextBlackKnownDoorsSpecialGrewGrew UpPaidPolicePrivilegeBlack PeopleInformingInformantsSnitch Author:Trevor Noah
“[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.” PeopleKnowsWayKindBlackAbilityWhiteGrewGrew UpOptimismFellowsMajorityInstanceBarackBlack PeopleHawaiiCountrymenAbility To See Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I have always believed. I grew up, you know, my parents were a good Christian people. They showed us love in the home.” PeopleKnowsHomeChristianParentGrewGrew UpAlways BelieveGood Christian Author:Joel Osteen
“Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.” PeopleLooksBlackGrewGrew UpLike MeNeighborhoodLatino Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to other human beings, and at some point, I came to grips with the fact that whoever murdered my friend is now an adult, and all I can truly hopefully pray for is that in murdering my friend it bettered their life. And I don't mean that they gained things, but just that they grew up, they regret their decision, they found a place of spirituality or God or whatever people call it.” PeopleHumansMeanI CanDoneFactsSpiritualityFoundHuman BeingsDecisionRegretGrewPrayingGrew UpMy FriendsAdultsHorribleHopefullyHorrible Things Author:Killer Mike
“In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.” PeopleMenDifferentMightRememberHouseHoursCollegeGrewWalkingGrew UpPercentTradeDollarsWarmEggsPigsUnemploymentBeggarGreat DepressionCollege EducationGrown Man Author:Jimmy Carter
“When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.” PeopleHandsKidsTodayParentGrewGrew UpBabysitter Author:Brett Morgen
“It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.” PeopleIfsMadeDoneReadingHouseCitiesCreativityCasesImpossibleWorstGrewGrew UpMajorityRateLondonDrivenNewspapersCeaseEntrepreneurshipRisingHomelessHousingHubLondonersHousing MarketHouse Prices Author:David Lammy
“I pretty much grew up in the Clubber Lang/Ivan Drago era. That was more my time. I've always been a fan of the films, even the fifth, that I know some people didn't care for, I've always enjoyed them.” PeopleKnowsCareFilmFansGrewGrew UpEnjoyedErasMy TimeFifth Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew up in praying homes, our father launched a Christian school with nothing, basically he had some people that believed in the project but they had very little resources, and we watched our parents deal with those issues first in prayer, and then when they went out knocking on doors they saw amazing doors answered and resources come in.” PeopleFirstsLittlesHomeSchoolChristianFatherParentPrayerAnswersDealsIssuesSawsDoorsGrewPrayingProjectsGrew UpResourcesIncrediblesOur FatherAlexKnockingAnswers To PrayerChristian SchoolsKnocking On Doors Author:Stephen Kendrick
“I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way, I grew up with a keen sense of a division, the reality of a division of perception in people's lives between those who govern and those who govern.” PeopleWayRealityStrongGrewPerceptionGrew UpDivisionVery Strong Author:Wole Soyinka
“Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were also people out - and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing - but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren't really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.” PeopleKnowsStillsKidsGuyOpportunityFeltDangerGrewDrugGrew UpResponsibleAccessErasThis DayCracks Author:Mahershala Ali
“[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksColorGrewGrew UpAreasMy FamilyFolksLos AngelesCracksChicagoDetroitEpidemicsBaltimoreNucleusOakland Author:Mahershala Ali
“Family is something that I grew up with, and the Mexican culture has a lot of, you know - Sunday is the day you spend with your family, and you have 40 to 50 people at your house, the uncles and the cousins, and I grew up with that.” PeopleKnowsCultureHouseGrewGrew UpOur FamilySundayUnclesCousinMexicanMexican Culture Author:Karla Souza
“In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.” PeopleLongBitsSportsRocksYouthGrewGrew UpLong TimeIntellectualAustraliaRock And RollCultSurfingRebelliousMacho Author:Tim Winton
“I hope to encourage some people out there, especially all the mixed, curly-headed babies of the world, stand up, we are here! But just people in general, it really doesn't matter. Judge a man on his actions, his words, not the color of his skin or the race, or where he grew up.” PeopleMenWorldMatterActionRaceColorJudgingBabyGrewGrew UpSkins Author:Kevin michael
“I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.” PeopleThinkingMeanFatherFeltPoorSuccessfulRichGrewMetsGrew UpAffectedMisconception Author:Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
“It would be great for everyone to grow up like I grew up, where everyone had a job. It would be nice for everybody. I'm the son of a "legal" immigrant. I think it would be nice for everyone to get back to work. Get rid of homelessness. People could work. I think if people give Donald Trump a chance, he'll do great.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingWould BeJobsGrowsChanceGrowing UpNiceSonGrewTrumpGrew UpImmigrantsGet BackBeing NiceHomelessnessBack To Work Author:Frank Stallone
“We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryFactsMightKidsSchoolYoungPurposeThreeParentGoneFiveGroupsCollegeReadyGrewGrew UpPracticalsThreatenedPaperwork Author:Barack Obama
“Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.” PeopleKindPoliticalStuffGenerationsGrewWalkingRight NowKissingGrew UpTiredAssAll KindsRacistPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessPussyAccusingGetting TiredEggshellsWalking On Eggshells Author:Clint Eastwood
“The '60s and '70s - I grew up in the Haight-Ashbury - people around me were going to school by day and all night long having these incredibly exciting meetings, mobilizing, marching, drafting statements. It was very intoxicating. It was very energizing. We've really forgotten a lot of those skills. Or they haven't been transmitted. It's useful to the people controlling us to have those skills not be available.” PeopleLongSchoolNightHavensGrewSkillsGrew UpExcitingMeetingsForgottenAvailableStatementsAll NightEnergizingDrafting Author:Naomi Wolf
“I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.” PeopleYearsLittlesStillsBornWhiteFiveSawsGrewLateGrew UpRacismCrossesTownsSouthCirclesBurningErasFive YearsSquaresEchoesChamberPrivate LifeCasualNoonAlabamaFive Year Olds Author:Nate Powell
“Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.” PeopleWantEnoughBigsCitiesEnvironmentAliveGrewWalkingGrew UpHawaiiTrashGarbageCorpsesDumpPristineSacrilege Author:Bette Midler