Grew Quotes
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We grew up even a lot from last week. Even with all the dropped balls and fumbled, we never stopped believing in ourselves.
Anthony Lewis
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I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.
Mike Vallely Black Flag
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I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.
Rana el Kaliouby
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Two buckets were easier carried than one. I grew up in between.
Seamus Heaney
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I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.
Andy Gibb
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I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
Glenn Frey The Eagles
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I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
Navid Negahban
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The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I could find those alien creatures right on Earth. And what I do is I study insects.
Michael Dickinson
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I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.
Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian
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I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
Angelina Jolie
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I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.
Nicki Minaj
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When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
Bernadette Peters
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When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
Nicki Minaj
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I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.
Tony Kushner
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I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
Marco Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.
Neil Drumming
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Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.
Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian
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Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
Nneka
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Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
Bill Vaughan
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I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
Andrew Solomon