Famous Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

Peter Hermann

I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.

Phil Klay

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

Phil Everly

I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.

Oscar Isaac

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

Patricia MacLachlan

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

Patrick O'Brian

Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

Patrick Chan

When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

Tom Wilson

I respect their program. I grew up only 14 miles away in Monroe.

Over the years, we produced about 2,000 trees, shrubs and other plant material per year. That doesn't include sea oats: we grew about 70,000 sea oats over the past three years.

Jon Secada

My style is a very universal sound, which is very close to where I grew up.

Mary Badham

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

Miranda Lambert

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.

Liam Hemsworth

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

e. e. cummings

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

Craig Brewer

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

Chuck Norris

Well, I grew up as a democrat.

Ann Kirkpatrick

I grew up learning to do more with less.

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

Cara Buono

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

Elton John

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

Eiza Gonzalez

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

Edward Brooke

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

Elle King

I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

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.

The Weeknd

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

A. S. Byatt

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.