Grew Up Quotes - Page 23

• I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

  Mandy Moore

  Play, Waiting, My Best Friend

  "The E3 of The Hollywood". www.ign.com. October 11, 2001.

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• I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up
  listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.

  Dave Grohl

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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• I grew up in one of the biggest high schools in the world, and that's the Disney Channel. Everybody was falling in love with each other or not liking each other, and it was exhausting and I was the shy one in the corner. And now I'm so opinionated, and I don't have time for the cattiness. I have good people around me, and I'm glad I'm at the place I'm in. I wish I was there back then.

  Selena

  Falling In Love, School, People

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• I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

  Justin Townes Earle

  House, Parent, Feelings

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• I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

  Aravind Adiga

  Cities, Grandfather, Four

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• It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.

  Bernard Lewis

  Religious, Civilization, Two

  Bernard Lewis (2003). “The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror”, p.3, Modern Library

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• I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

  Wayne Rooney

  Hate, Fans, Whole Family

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• I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

  John McGahern

  Class, People, Catholic

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

  John McGahern

  Thinking, Different, Century

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

  Graham Hawkes

  Computer, Grew

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• I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Believe, Thinking

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• I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, School, Florida

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

  Avicii

  Brother, Father, Kissing

  "Q&A: Avicii". Interview with Andy Malt, www.completemusicupdate.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

  Nadia Giosia

  Fun, Italian, Cake

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Mom, Hair, High Heels

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• I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

  Patty Griffin

  Beautiful, Catholic, Males

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• My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

  Graham Norton

  Class, Parent, Way

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 11, 2003.

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• I grew up in a very toxic home.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Home, Toxic, Grew

  "Bethenny Frankel Talks About Her Father". www.harpersbazaar.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

  Michael Eisner

  Taken, School, College

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  Gary Burton

  Years, Musician, Indiana

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• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  Bruce Feiler

  Adventure, White, Russia

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• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Grew

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• One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Halloween, Doors, Hands

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

  Tiki Barber

  Sports, Lines, Success And Failure

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