Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

Conrad Sewell

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

On marrying Freddie Prinze Jr: He grew up with women so he leaves the toilet seat up.

Lori Petty

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

Louie Schwartzberg

I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.

Kara Walker

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

Laura Wade

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

Basically, he grew up doing everything for himself, and I think this was all to show us he could do this too. It was to prove something to us, that he's not a little kid.

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.

I had to turn the TV off. You're looking at a place where I grew up - and it's gone.

Stephen Graham Jones

I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.

Daryl Sabara

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

Judah Friedlander

I'd like to work with John Waters. I grew up in Maryland, so I'm a huge Waters fan.

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

Stephen Hawking

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

George R. R. Martin

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Marcus Samuelsson

I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times.

Flea

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

e. e. cummings

...and down they forgot as up they grew.

Liam Hemsworth

I read a lot of Zen books. And I grew up surfing, so that has always been my escape.

Dan Fogler

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

Craig Brewer

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

Chuck Norris

Well, I grew up as a democrat.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.