Grew Up Quotes - Page 2

• I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

  Charley Pride

  Boyfriend, Dad, Father

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• Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

  Christie Hefner

  Generations, Magazines, Sexuality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

  Tim McGraw

  Growing Up, Fun, Mean

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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 haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Fame, Grew, Havens

  "Aaron Taylor-Johnson: a star from nowhere". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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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 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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• A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

  Wesley Snipes

  Cat, Found, Bronx

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• I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

  Wesley Snipes

  New York, Law, Citizens

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

  Hope Solo

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". Interview with Cheryl Corley, listen.sdpb.org. August 18, 2012.

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• So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Optimism, Challenges

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Doctors, Males, Lawyer

  "Sotomayor says she was 'perfect affirmative action baby'" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

  Wole Soyinka

  Atmosphere, Culture, Grew

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• With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

  Jordin Sparks

  Grandparent, Temptation, Listening

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• My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Jurassic Park, Leviathan, Parks

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• When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mother, Hands, Symphony

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• I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Aunt, House, Six

  "The Boss is back". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. April 16, 2003.

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• I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

  Danielle Steel

  Father, Car, Knows

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• I grew up in a happy household.

  Kristen Stewart

  Grew, Household

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

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• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Cartoon, Adults, Grew

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• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Views

  "J. Michael Straczynski’s Superman: Outsider with a vulnerable heart". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 5, 2012.

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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?'' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

  Harry Styles

  Way, Respect Women, Mum

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

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• With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

  Michael Symon

  Thinking, Car, Able

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