I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Votes: 4
Harriet TubmanI grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. Votes: 4
Akhmad KadyrovI grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. Votes: 2
Joseph StiglitzWell, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven. Votes: 2
Keren AnnI got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. Votes: 2
Louise ErdrichI never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. Votes: 2
Anita DiamentI grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. Votes: 2
Charley PrideMemories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older. Votes: 0
Sarah Addison AllenStraight between them ran the pathway,Never grew the grass upon it Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAs I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. Votes: 0
John James AudubonThough my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. Votes: 0
Diane SetterfieldThen I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldHip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture. Votes: 0
Ali Shaheed Muhammad[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. Votes: 0
Helen Hooven SantmyerI grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out. Votes: 0
Terry Tempest WilliamsI grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
J. Michael StraczynskiOh my God, I grew up in the kitchen. Absolutely. The kitchen, for me, is home.
Princess Tatiana of Greece and DenmarkI grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
Giada De LaurentiisGirls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
Mary Roberts RinehartI grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.
Katherine HelmondI grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?
Nicolas GhesquiereI've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.
Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeMy parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.
George ThorogoodI'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
Benedict CumberbatchThis Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.
J. V. CunninghamI grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.
John KrasinskiMy father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.
Kieran HebdenI grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.
Linda D. ThompsonThe magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
William GilbertI grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
Andrea ArnoldI grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.
Robert ReichJob endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
Soren KierkegaardI grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.
Wendi McLendon-CoveyOne thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.
William KamkwambaI grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
Allison JanneyImperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
Edgar Allan PoeI grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.
Indira GandhiI think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.
Jordana BrewsterI can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.
Richard SammelKitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)
Sherrilyn KenyonI was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much.
Tyler DrumhellerYou are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.
Eliezer YudkowskyMy mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.
Ivanka TrumpI think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.
Jim GaffiganLincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an "instrument of God's will.
Joe L. WheelerI'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
Wally LambI grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes
Oscar PistoriusI actually grew up thinking that sex was absolutely terrifying and that it would kill you.
Amanda SeyfriedHip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.
Axel AlonsoThe poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
Barbara Brown TaylorThe library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
Luis ValdezI'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
Bill BrysonI grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.
Debbie FordI grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.
Donavon FrankenreiterLove grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.
Graham MooreI had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.
Holt McCallanyA lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
Jill ScottAnd on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
John MiltonWe lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.
Julie OtsukaI grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
Junot DiazI think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
Kehinde WileyI grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.
Richard RoeperI'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.
Tim KaineMy father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
Anne LamottWhen I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
David DuchovnyOrganic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!
Dylan MoranIf you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.
Jeffrey EugenidesI grew up on 'Lawrence' and 'Zhivago'. A legacy with not one but multiple timeless classics.
Josh GadWhen I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years
Julia Louis-DreyfusI grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.
Lee PaceI grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.
Nicolas Winding RefnAnd still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
Oliver GoldsmithI grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.
Aja Naomi KingAs I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.
Evangeline LillyWe are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
Marianne WilliamsonI've always loved dogs. I grew up with them and I love working with them. They're really fun.
Zac EfronWe all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.
Bruno MarsI've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.
Chad LindbergWho never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
Charles Sprague SargentI grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.
Hillary ClintonI grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.
Steve ClevengerI grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
Tammin SursokI grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
Tania RaymondeSo, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
Kate UptonI grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.
Mary HarronWhen I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
Robert CarlyleI grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.
Chris IsaakYou grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.
John RzeznikI grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.
Mateus WardWhile I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.
Patrick Awuah, Jr.I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!
Rupert FriendI grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food
Sandra CisnerosFrom now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
Sue Monk KiddWhere I grew up, surfing was a way for people to celebrate their love and respect for the ocean.
Tristan PrettymanObeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
Brian AldissI grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.
Eric ShinsekiWe grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.
Jon StewartI grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.
MobyI grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.
Jeremy PivenI grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
John DarnielleI feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.
Josh RadnorI grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one
Mario LopezFilm is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.
Preity ZintaI've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
Saoirse RonanI mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.
Scott SpeedmanI grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
Adam OatesMost of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.
Aziz AnsariI grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.
Joni ErnstI grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.
Katheryn WinnickI grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.
Paul KagameThe years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
Richard PeckWhen I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
Rip TornI play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.
Robbie AmellI was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
William Standish KnowlesI grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
Bobby McFerrinI grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.
Bruno MarsThe myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.
Clarence ThomasI grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
Jacqueline BissetI was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.
Lenny KravitzI know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
Ronan FarrowI grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
Sherman AlexieFor me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s
Will EstesShe bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
Edmund Spenser