Grew Up Quotes - Page 40

• I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

  David Walton

  Energy, Feminine, Grew

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

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• I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four

  Kim Kardashian

  Children, Sibling, Four

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.

  Anna Sui

  Detroit, Grew, Suburbs

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• We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'

  Greg Noll

  Girl, Drinking, Thinking

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.17, North Atlantic Books

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• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  Raekwon

  Mom, Father, Parent

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• I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Dad, Oklahoma, Cities

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

  Lee Majors

  Heaven, Gone, Genes

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

  Art Alexakis

  Home, People, Trying

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• As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

  Keith Johnstone

  Children, Eye, Perception

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.13, Routledge

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• I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

  Max Cannon

  Military, Effort, Style

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• I grew up in the theatre.

  Jeremy Piven

  Theatre, Grew

  Source: collider.com

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• I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

  Jasmine Tookes

  Mom, Fashion, Stylist

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• I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

  William Standish Knowles

  June, Massachusetts, Born

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• I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

  Neil Jordan

  Mean, Years, Issues

  Interview with with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Successful, Intelligent

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• My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.

  Richard McKenna

  Book, Thinking, Rocks

  Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

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• I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

  Joe Manganiello

  Fit, Misfits, Grew

  "DA MAN Exclusive: Joe Manganiello Of 'True Blood'". Interview with M. Berlian, daman.co.id. September 20, 2012.

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• The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

  Johann Hari

  Grew, States, Food Stamps

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012

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• I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

  Anita Diament

  Nannies, Mary, Wanted

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• You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

  Mike McGavick

  Shadow, Towers, Grew

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• The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn’t want to find. Emotionally, it would have been easiest for me to just hold on to what I grew up believing, but mentally that wasn’t an option anymore.

  Tim Lambesis

  Religious, Believe, Years

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Taiwan

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• As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Powerful, Nice, Four

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• I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie Hoosiers. That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

  Mary Meeker

  Basketball, Believe, Differences

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012..

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• I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Growing Up, Ukulele, Play

  "The Rock: 'THAT is what I'm cooking'". Interview With Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2012.

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