Grew Quotes - Page 2

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

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Ignorant

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Dysfunctional Family, Grew Up

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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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• 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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• Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

  Phil Collins

  Nice, Kids, Tired

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• I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

  Dane Cook

  Self, Anxiety, Panic Attacks

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

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• I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

  Lauren Conrad

  Beach, Caring, Environment

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• I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.

  Phil Collins

  Week, Singles, Grew Up

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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• This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Teacher, Kids, Idols

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