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 grew up with nothing, and that was my motivation.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • motivation
  • Grew Up

• 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

• When AM switched to FM, the focus went from tunesmiths to technicians, ... We felt the music became less fun than what we grew up with. And we sensed a void.

  

  Eric Carmen
  • Music
  • Void
  • Technicians

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

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Grew
  • Code

• 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

• 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 am one of the few but very lucky people who grew up in a vegetarian household. So, I was vegetarian since birth along with my mother, sister, and brother.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • People
  • Grew Up
  • Vegetarian

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

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Up
  • Work
  • Theater

• When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.

  

  Nicole Beharie
  • Live
  • Father
  • Grew Up

• 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

• I grew up with a Mediterranean diet, so I like clean, simple food. But if there's pizza on a menu, I always end up ordering it. I can't resist it.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Pizza
  • Resist
  • Ordering

• I grew up in a happy household.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Grew

• 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 in Minnesota.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Grew Up

• 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

• 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

• Begin to nurture yourself…Some grew up expecting their romantic partners to give them the nurturing they hungered for, only to be disappointed. But our partners are not our parents, no matter how much we try to make them into parents. No one can make up for the deprivation you experienced, and no one should be expected to.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Parents
  • Experienced
  • Romantic Partners

• 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

• I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Guitar
  • Grew Up
  • Classical

• 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

• 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 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

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