Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Brown

I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

Daniela Ruah

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Biz Stone

We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

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.