Grew Up Quotes - Page 25

• I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Song, Sight, Singing

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• Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

  Andrew Shue

  Senior, Soccer, School

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• I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

  Patricia Arquette

  Real, Hippie, Communes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, People, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1992). “To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Dream, Father

  "Full of beans" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2004.

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• I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Men, People

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• I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Who I Am, People

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• Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Music, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

  Bill Condon

  Knowing, People, Mexican

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• I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Two, Experience

  "World Authors 1950 - 1970". Book by John Wakeman, 1975.

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• I grew up listening to old soul

  Erykah Badu

  Soul, Listening, Old Soul

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• Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

  Diane Nash

  Emotional, Chicago, Stories

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• I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

  Jessica Hahn

  Girl, New York, Window

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• I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Roulette, Dice, Grew

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• The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky.
  Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.

  Kage Baker

  Dream, Light, Sky

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• When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world.

  Armistead Maupin

  Writing, Years, Cities

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• I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

  Tom Morello

  Growing Up, Chicago, Conservative

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

  Tony Abbott

  Dad, Granted, Mum

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

  Jessica Lynch

  Jobs, Virginia, Community

  "I'm Jessica Lynch and Here's My Real Story" by Abigail Pesta, www.glamour.com. June 3, 2007.

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• I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

  Terry Gilliam

  Country, Lakes, Swamps

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• I grew up in the United States.

  Dominique de Villepin

  United States, States, Grew

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• I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Atheist, Years

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• Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

  Gail Collins

  America, Grew, Grows

  "What the Tea Party Really Wants". Conversation, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 1, 2010.

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