Grew Up Quotes

• I grew up with three kids in the family, and it's definitely a little extra tricky having that third kid.

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Grew Up

• I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I'd be a race-car driver. That'd be awesome.

  

  Mitchel Musso
  • World
  • Industry
  • Grew Up

• I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life and all my friends' lives and defined our humor, in a way.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Humor
  • My Friends
  • Sponge Bob

• I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Violence
  • Realities
  • Survived

• I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Children
  • Grew Up
  • Second

• I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music, disco and house. It feels very natural. My rhythm growing up on hip-hop and R&B was cool, fresh, and I feel comfortable with it.

  

  Nomi Ruiz
  • Comfortable
  • Hip Hop
  • Grew Up

• I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Inspired
  • Volunteer
  • My Family

• Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.

  

  Peyton Reed
  • Grew Up
  • Both
  • Affinity

• I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Competition
  • Sport
  • Do Not

• It’s different from the place where I grew up, but I really wanted to play football. I would have gone anywhere for football. It’s a bit cold here, but I would have done anything to have a chance.

  

  Kelechi Iheanacho
  • Football
  • Chance
  • Grew Up

• I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Art
  • Connection
  • Creation

• For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

  

  Sean Maguire
  • American
  • Movies
  • Watching

• We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Difficult
  • Duty
  • Grew Up

• A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows.

  

  Stuart Scott
  • Poor
  • Grew Up
  • Million

• Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Grew Up
  • Granted
  • Catholicism

• I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • School
  • Poor
  • Average upbringing

• I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Desire
  • Emotional
  • Protect

• I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

  

  Jerry Heller
  • Communication
  • Understood
  • Grew Up

• I grew up in a Navy family.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Family
  • Grew Up
  • Navy

• I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Different
  • Grew Up
  • Accents

• I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.

  

  Cosima Spender
  • Parents
  • Never
  • English

• I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

  

  Charles Busch
  • Grew Up
  • Production
  • Follies

• I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Silence
  • Young
  • Grew Up

• But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Kids
  • Gun
  • Grew Up

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