Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Flanagan

I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

Karen Russell

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

Jeff Lemire

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.

Matisyahu

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

I grew up pretty anti-Catholic, to say the least. It's a radical journey.

I grew up on this lake. It's in my blood.

Joel Kinnaman

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.

Miles Teller

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Robert Wilson

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

I grew up in a town that has 10 meat markets.

Jesse Plemons

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

Carol Bartz

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.

Mary Meeker

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Philip Treacy

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

Don Lemon

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

I grew up as a receiver in this offense.

Mona Simpson

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.

Ronda Rousey

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

Diogo Morgado

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

I grew up a Raiders fan, ... I've seen it work.

I grew up a Raider fan. I've seen it work.

Tim Howard

I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.

I grew up alone, ... I spent a lot of time in my own imagination. I watched how (Winchell) reached out to these characters, and they would reach back to him through his imagination.

Alison Pill

I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.

Dot Jones

I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6" to 6'1" in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1". Everyone was freaking out.

Tim Howard

I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV.

Tamara Tunie

I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

Linda Ronstadt

I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then I went into a building where you couldn't see the sky at all. I didn't like that so much.

I grew up here, so I know Bedford needs something like this.

Donnie Edwards

I grew up here. I'm a lifelong Chargers fan.

Chris Froome

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.

Jamie Hewlett

I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.