Grew Up Quotes

• They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Society
  • Fighting

• I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Up
  • Work
  • Wanted

• I grew up with British rock.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Up
  • Rock
  • British rock

• The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Grew
  • Code

• I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fashion

• What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Up
  • Work
  • Theater

• I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Class
  • Diet
  • Mass

• The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Inspiration
  • Shakespeare
  • Working Procedure

• I grew up and had a lot of friends who were gay and Mormon. They couldn't come out to their parents. They couldn't even come out to me because we just wouldn't talk about it.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Friends
  • Gay
  • Mormon

• I grew up loving a lot of English bands, ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • English
  • Bands
  • Grew Up

• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Grew Up
  • Whites
  • Charles Dickens

• I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Grew Up
  • Nickname

• I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

  

  Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves
  • Grew Up
  • Skateboarding

• We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Proud
  • Poor
  • Grew Up

• 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.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Record Companies

• If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Challenge
  • Loves
  • Develop

• You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Believe
  • History
  • Way

• I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Rock
  • Child
  • Grew Up

• I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Everyone else but me surfs. I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. I'll get hurt and die. But if I die, I'll sell more records. We're thinking of doing that. Actually dying.

  

  Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves
  • Thinking
  • Skateboarding
  • Get Hurt

• We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Grew Up
  • Performed
  • Inspirations

• I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Car

• When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Songs
  • Grew Up
  • Gay People

• 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

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