If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Votes: 2
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did. Votes: 2
Ben AffleckI grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Votes: 2
Harriet TubmanI grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. Votes: 2
Joseph StiglitzI haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame. Votes: 2
Aaron Taylor-JohnsonWell, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality. Votes: 2
Christie HefnerI grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. Votes: 2
Akhmad KadyrovI grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. Votes: 2
Charley PrideI grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels. Votes: 2
Jane FondaWhen I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. Votes: 2
John LennonI grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. Votes: 2
Constance Baker MotleyI grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. Votes: 2
Heidi KlumAs I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. Votes: 0
John James AudubonBeing half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments. Votes: 0
Gina RodriguezWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. Votes: 0
Zelda FitzgeraldI come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there. Votes: 0
John RatzenbergerI grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. Votes: 0
Lars von TrierI grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented. Votes: 0
Moshe SafdieThen I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. Votes: 0
Davy CrockettI certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders. Votes: 0
Cheryl HayashiI grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory. Votes: 0
Emmanuelle SeignerI grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne. Votes: 0
Dan TrachtenbergMy friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it. Votes: 0
Kodi Smit-McPheeI grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit Votes: 0
Tony GoldwynIf I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club. Votes: 0
Martha MacIsaacI grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that. Votes: 0
Carrie UnderwoodWe grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them. Votes: 0
Shane KoyczanIn our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second. Votes: 0
Sonia JohnsonHip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture. Votes: 0
Ali Shaheed MuhammadI grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Votes: 0
Yancy ButlerI grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys. Votes: 0
Bonnie Jo CampbellI come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up. Votes: 0
Sandy DuncanI grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons. Votes: 0
J. Michael StraczynskiI grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl. Votes: 0
Matthew EmmonsOh my God, I grew up in the kitchen. Absolutely. The kitchen, for me, is home. Votes: 0
Princess Tatiana of Greece and DenmarkFew people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there. Votes: 0
Michael StrahanI grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City. Votes: 0
Harland WilliamsI never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything. Votes: 0
Theophilus LondonI grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians. Votes: 0
Jasmine GuinnessI never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. Votes: 0
Anita DiamentI grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd. Votes: 0
Joe ManganielloEven though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. Votes: 0
Alden EhrenreichI grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out. Votes: 0
Terry Tempest WilliamsI grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope. Votes: 0
Carlos MenciaI grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
Giada De LaurentiisI 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 CumberbatchI 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. ThompsonI 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 ReichI 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 JanneyI 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 SammelI 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 GaffiganI'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 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 FrankenreiterI 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 ScottI 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 GadI 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 RefnI grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.
Aja Naomi KingWe 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 LindbergI 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 WardI 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 PrettymanI 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 LopezI'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 Estes