Grew Quotes

• 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
  • Up
  • Last
  • Balls

• Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

  

  Ree Drummond
  • City
  • Ranch
  • Moderately

• I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Grew

• Two buckets were easier carried than one. I grew up in between.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Easier
  • Grew
  • Buckets

• 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
  • Firsts
  • Bones
  • Ultimate

• 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.
  • Moving
  • Boys
  • Pace

• But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Mean
  • Player
  • Expectations

• 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
  • Tired
  • Becoming
  • Psychotic

• 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
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Grew Up

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• 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
  • Up
  • Success
  • Sex

• 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
  • Up
  • Star
  • Film

• I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.

  

  Neil Drumming
  • Music
  • Grew

• 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
  • Film
  • Fans
  • Horror

• 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
  • Reading
  • Grew
  • Biographies

• 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
  • Different
  • Listening
  • Hardship

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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
  • World
  • Want
  • Earth

• 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
  • Up
  • Money
  • Way

• 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
  • Feels
  • Grew
  • Birthplace

• It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Bigs
  • Members
  • Rocks

• I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Up
  • Country
  • Bad

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