Grew Up Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Winter, Pyramids, Olympus

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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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• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Creating, Our World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

  Aaron Klug

  Father, Men, Facts

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• I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Hero, Heart

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state

  Drew Brees

  Football, Texas, States

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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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• I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

  Frank Rich

  Theater, Grew, Loving Deeply

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• Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two very distinct cultures, western European and American Indian.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Believe, Two, America

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• I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Grew, Courses

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• I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.

  Rachel Stevens

  Football, Patriotic, House

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• I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Thinking, Sin

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• I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

  Gunter Grass

  Generations, Socialism, Blinded

  "The steps aren’t enough" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Sports, Football, Dad

  "Do Tell: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Funny Senator". Interview with Mary Ann Akers, voices.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.

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• Television and I grew up together.

  Roger Ailes

  Together, Television, Grew

  Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.13, Crown Business

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• Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it's a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here.

  Tom Glavine

  Baseball, Kids, League

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• The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

  Al Smith

  Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, Together

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• I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Kids, Tennis

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• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Grandmother, Great Love

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". Interview with Noreen O'Donnell, www.reuters.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Social media really grew up.

  Kevin Rose

  Media, Entrepreneur, Social

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• And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

  David Benioff

  Growing Up, Thinking, Goal

  "David Benioff" by Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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