Famous Quotes & Sayings

He grew up on the ocean; he's very much in love with the ocean and has always worked to keep it pure,

We talked a lot about how that region grew and how students were recruited. We need to be ready to train a workforce for these jobs.

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Benjamin Disraeli

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up,

Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.

Lamorne Morris

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

Brian McKnight

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

Sherman Alexie

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Thorstein Veblen

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

Gloria Gaither

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Bill Hader

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Alexa Vega

You always hear these stories of people who grew up in Hollywood, and they're like, 'We lost our childhood.' But I was very fortunate.

Billy Corgan

I've never had coffee. I've always hated the smell. It was always tea. I was a pretty typical kid, though. I grew up drinking Lipton. I didn't know there was other tea to drink.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.

Ving Rhames

I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.'

Ira Glass

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

Naturi Naughton

I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

Lynn Flewelling

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

Larry Ellison

Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

Leon Krier

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

Brian Austin Green

She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience.

Bobby Seale

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.