Top 100 Quotes About Grew
#1. Sometimes life was messy and got in the way. But wasn't that part of the beauty of falling in love and being in a relationship? You figured things out together as you grew, and faced the challenges that life enjoyed the hell out of throwing at you.
J. Sterling
#2. After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
Iman
#3. I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
Emmanuel Jal
#4. I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.
Holly Valance
#5. I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
Bryan Singer
#6. Their pursuers suddenly stopped their efforts, grew quiet. "They gave up!" Mark said, embarrassed at the kidlike excitement in his voice. "Which means they're up to something," Alec replied. "We need to get inside this beast and get her ready to fly. And get that landing pad open.
James Dashner
#7. I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.
Nina Bawden
#8. I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.
Jason Moore
#9. When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up ... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.
Dorian Corey
#10. He was just as unwilling to talk about himself as she was herself. 'So what changed you?' He sipped his lemonade and carefully set his glass down. 'Finally grew up, I suppose.' Manny
Mary Burton
#11. I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
Malorie Blackman
#12. I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A. J. McLean
#13. So he grew up not only with a sense of having once been abandoned, but also with a sense that he was special. In his own mind, that was more important in the formation of his personality.
Walter Isaacson
#14. Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.
Brandon Sanderson
#15. I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.
Jane Goodall
#16. My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.
Demian Bichir
#17. I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.
John Krasinski
#18. I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.
Eve Ensler
#19. In my experience, the ex-military guys came in two types. The first grew long hair, sprouted beards, and indulged in all the things they hadn't been able do while they'd been in the armed forces. The second did their best to pretend they never got out.
Ilona Andrews
#20. I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.
KT Tunstall
#21. I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
Lance Bass
#22. I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.
Bill Goldberg
#23. I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Allan Sloan
#24. I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
Donald Dunn
#25. I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house. I have a couple of vintage Jeeps I'm always working on, fixing up. And I ride horses - I grew up on a horse ranch - and play basketball. I need to cut back on my hobbies so I can work more.
Riley Smith
#26. There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
Thomas Gibson
#27. Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.
Jemaine Clement
#28. I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.
Armin Zoggeler
#29. I grew up in a very westernised environment and went to a private American school. But my personality was shy and quiet, and I wanted to wear the hijab but didn't have the courage, as I knew my friends would talk me out of it.
Leila Aboulela
#30. Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany's military objectives in Europe. That year Germany grew into a singularly dangerous continental presence: besieged, paranoid and armed to the teeth.
Paul Ham
#31. The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.
Oscar Wilde
#32. Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.
Cody Horn
#33. I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.
Phoebe Tonkin
#34. The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.
John Berryman
#35. I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.
Lauren Cohan
#36. Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.
Michael Bond
#37. Rojer nodded, but his eye grew wet. Leesha squeezed his hand. "Herb Gatherers see death often," she told him. "No one, no one, ever goes to the Creator with all their business complete. We all get a different length of time, but it needs to be enough, regardless.
Peter V. Brett
#38. The stars here and the ones there are each special for their own reason. You grew up looking at these, while I looked at mine. Now we've both looked at each of them together.
Nyrae Dawn
#40. My arms wrapped about little Jala, little sister, hot with fever but the fire grew too hot, and so, in my arms, her flesh cooled to dawn-stone, mother keening - Jala was the ember now lifeless, and from that day, in mother's eyes, I became naught but its bed of ash.
Steven Erikson
#41. Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.
Mo Ibrahim
#42. I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.
Ann Kirkpatrick
#43. I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.
Sarah Shahi
#44. Everything I did in P.E. was just awful. Archery was just something that we did as a father/daughter activity, and it just kind of grew out of that, really.
Miranda Leek
#45. When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
Mireille Guiliano
#46. I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#47. I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
Justin Bieber
#48. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#49. My world, which once seemed so broad and full of possibilities, began to shrink as my need for security grew. Why could that be? It must be a quality we inherited from when our ancestors lived in caves. Groups provide protection; loners die.
Paulo Coelho
#50. I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.
Barbara Kingsolver
#51. Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz
#52. Every kid has a bug period ... I never grew out of mine.
E. O. Wilson
#53. The Saracens surrendered to Richard. And he had every last one of them beheaded. There was a hill of heads, a hill that grew gradually out of the moat and spilled on to the plain.' Liam looked down at a potato bobbing in his soup and all of a sudden felt a little less hungry.
Alex Scarrow
#54. I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.
Michael Kors
#55. Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
Vladimir Potanin
#56. I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
Mandy Patinkin
#57. I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters.
Jennifer Lopez
#58. The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.
Johnny Cash
#59. I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
Helena Bonham Carter
#60. Sick people grew to resent well people, and sometimes that was true of husbands and wives, or even of mothers and their children. Both
Alice Munro
#61. I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
Carrie Underwood
#62. After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy ... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Iris Johansen
#63. I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.
Rivers Cuomo
#64. At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
Morgan Brittany
#65. A woman, nothing existed but the domestic sphere and those tiny flowers etched on the pages of my art book. For a woman to aspire to be a lawyer - well, possibly, the world would end. But an acorn grew into an oak tree, didn't it?
Sue Monk Kidd
#66. I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.
Shonda Rhimes
#67. I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?
Hilarie Burton
#68. As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.
Clyde Edgerton
#69. Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
Carol Bartz
#70. I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.
Gloria Votsis
#71. I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
Bailey Chase
#72. I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.
Halsey
#75. I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
E.L. Konigsburg
#76. My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.
Amanda Donohoe
#77. Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
Jack Nicklaus
#78. I'm a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I've been fortunate enough to be doing this for a great deal of years; if someone is thinking of me as they're writing something I take it as a huge compliment and hope that it's an interesting character at least.
Martin Starr
#79. I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.
Lisa Loeb
#80. Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake
Andy Partridge
#81. I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
Martin Scorsese
#82. When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.
Atul Gawande
#83. I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.
Elton John
#84. Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters.
Vera Farmiga
#85. I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.
Rahki
#86. I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
Bruno Mars
#87. I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
Neko Case
#88. During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.
Damon Knight
#89. No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
Liev Schreiber
#90. Both my parents are chefs ... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.
Ming-Na Wen
#91. I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.
Keanu Reeves
#92. Perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them.
Larry McMurtry
#93. I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.
Greg Bryk
#94. My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.
Joan Van Ark
#95. I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
Raini Rodriguez
#96. I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
Ian Holm
#97. Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
Mike Myers
#98. When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you could imagine. I used to watch it with him, and I loved it.
Erica Cerra
#99. I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
Suzi Quatro
#100. Liam's face grew serious. I'll take good care of you, Cordelia. I promise.
Kristan Higgins
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