Grew Up Quotes

• When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

  

  Nash Edgerton
  • Cinema
  • Grew Up
  • Shorts

• I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.

  

  Susan Lucci
  • Parents
  • Grew Up
  • Musicals

• 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 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

• Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

  

  Axel Alonso
  • History
  • Hip Hop
  • Grew Up

• As a Marvel fan who grew up with 'The Avengers' and 'Ant-Man' and everything, I definitely have my own sort of feelings about what I want to see as a fan in an 'Ant-Man' movie.

  

  Peyton Reed
  • Want
  • See
  • Marvel

• I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

  

  Stephen Sprouse
  • Place
  • Grew Up
  • Farmland

• When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Firsts
  • Excited
  • Grew Up

• Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Kids
  • Baseball
  • United States

• I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

  

  Josh Segarra
  • Grew Up
  • saw
  • Musicals

• I guess because of the way we grew up, we don't put people on a pedestal as high as other people do because we didn't know the pedestal existed.

  

  Nathan Followill
  • Grew Up
  • Existed
  • Pedestal

• I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Team
  • Army
  • Grew Up

• I grew up with television. I love television and to be working in it is awesome. I think where I do well at television is because I grew up watching the great sitcom actors Jackie Gleason, I love Rob Reiner, also John Ritter.

  

  Steve Howey
  • Television
  • Watching
  • Grew Up

• I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Family
  • Impression
  • Supportive

• The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Seems
  • Older
  • Realness

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

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Different
  • Grew Up
  • Accents

• 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 grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.

  

  Norah O'Donnell
  • School
  • Track
  • Grew Up

• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Grew Up
  • Compare
  • Beatles

• Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.

  

  Bonnie McFarlane
  • Water
  • Grew Up
  • Channel

• When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Songs
  • Choose
  • Grew Up

• Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Listening
  • Grew Up
  • Plan B

• I grew up in Jersey. I've been to the Jersey Shore countless times. I've lived it.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Grew Up
  • Lived
  • Jersey

• I grew up in a Navy family.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Family
  • Grew Up
  • Navy

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