Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Millepied

I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.

Bruce Babbitt

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.

Bruce Beutler

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

FKA twigs

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

Israel Horovitz

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

Israel Broussard

I grew up in Mississippi, and there's no fashion game there. Even in 'Bling Ring,' I had to learn a lot about fashion - you know, the differences between lapels - and it wasn't until we'd wrapped that I really started getting into it.

Israel Broussard

I grew up with three sisters, so I got used to being around them and all of their worries about fashion and what they are wearing.

A. J. McLean

I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Iyanla Vanzant

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

Robin Wright

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

Russell Tovey

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

Vivian Campbell

Yeah, Yngwie Malmsteen is mind-blowing, but I can't listen to it! At the time I couldn't listen to it! But I grew up wanting to be like that.

Dave King

You know, to us, every day is St. Patrick's Day. We started off in a bar, and we grew from there.

Byron Dorgan

You know, I come from a rural state, I grew up around guns, ... As a teenager I had a rifle and shotgun, so ...

Hilda Solis

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.

Henry Thomas

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

Halston Sage

I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

James Nesbitt

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

David Schwimmer

You know, I grew up watching all kinds of films. So, as an adult, I wanted to be involved in all kinds of plays and television and film.

We had a lot of trouble timing our hitting. We grew as a team during this tournament. They really got after it, and I'm proud of them for that.

We're really pleased with the defense. We have 10 new starters on defense. They grew up in a hurry and hung in there.

Paul Simonon

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Pearl Cleage

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

Martin Mull

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Zinedine Zidane

I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.

Zachary Levi

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

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.

Megan Fox

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

Madonna Ciccone

Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

Prince Royce

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

Prince Royce

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.