Grew Quotes

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

  Anita Diament

  Nannies, Grew Up, Mary

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• I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

  Jay Hernandez

  Play, Grew Up, Raiders

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• I grew up in Brooklyn.

  Johnny Kelly

  Brooklyn, Grew Up

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• Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

  Kent McCord

  Tough, Grew Up, Neighborhood

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• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  Aaron Paul

  Idaho, Towns, Small Town

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

  Boz Scaggs

  Black, Radio, Sides

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• I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Family, Religious, Age

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, Artist, Cities

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• Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dream, Persistence, Feet

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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.

  Joe Perry

  Running, Country, Gun

  "Aerosmith leader Joe Perry talks 'Sons of Guns,' classic firearms, defending the Second Amendment" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Dysfunctional Family, Grew Up

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Ignorant

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• I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that indeed I am a man.

  Johnny Weir

  Men, Littles, Beard

  "Johnny Weir Fires Back At Critics", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

  Tupac Shakur

  Law, Feet, Rose

  Song: (Poetry) The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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• And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Three, Size

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Growing Up, Dust, Ashes

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

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• Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

  Tupac Shakur

  Long, Rose, Concrete

  "The Rose that Grew from Concrete".

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  Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Goal, Stay True To Yourself

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Who I Am, Energy, Negative

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

  Kirstie Alley

  Alcohol, Drug, Culture

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