Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Grace Lin

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but it grew beyond the category.

Grace Hightower

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.

Jay-Z

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.

Big Smo

I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.

Brian O'Driscoll

I was quite small as a kid and maybe a little afraid physically. When I grew into myself, the realisation changed. That when you hurt yourself, it's transient; it doesn't stay forever.

Frankie Valli

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

Iyanla Vanzant

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

Drake Bell

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.

Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

Bryan Greenberg

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

Al Sharpton

As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.

Anne Wojcicki

I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.

Action Bronson

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

Anthony Browne

I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.

Adam Beach

I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.