Grew Up Quotes - Page 25

• I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.

  Chris Parnell

  Thinking, Southern, Baptists

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 21, 2003.

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• I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

  Mike Rowe

  Hero, Blue, House

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• I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

  George A. Romero

  Dc Comics, Guy, Stuff

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Childhood, Different, Los Angeles

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• To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Garden, Thinking, Eggplant

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books

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• The problem is that the internet IS some kid in a basement with an opinion. The fact that David Bowie and Elton John told me that they were fans of Helmet - or Neil Young - that means something to me because I grew up on their music and they’re great musicians... That means more to me than some guy who hates the fact that my hair is short.

  Page Hamilton

  Hate, Mean, Kids

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• I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then Id go baseball, and then Id go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

  Joe Gibbs

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Grew

  "Among the wild things" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.

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• I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

  Bill Bryson

  Britain, Grew

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• It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Thinking, Play

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• I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self Esteem, Luxury, Factories

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

  William Kamkwamba

  Patient, Grew, One Thing

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• It just never occurred to me that a school’s policy and student culture could make a big difference in the way I would experience my body while on campus. I didn’t think there was anything to choose about a sexual culture. I’d only ever known the one I grew up in. But it did matter, and in ways I wouldn’t have even predicted.

  Jaclyn Friedman

  School, Thinking, Differences

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• I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

  Channing Tatum

  Girl, Florida, Dancing

  "Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey talk Magic Mike workouts, dance moves and stripping music". Interview with Oliver Franklin-Wallis, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. July 12, 2012.

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• I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

  Bill Walton

  Art, Parent, Athletic

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• I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

  Gilda Radner

  Television, Grows, Fronts

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• My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

  Luke Perry

  School, Ohio, West

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

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• I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Religious, Helping Others, People

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• The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Father, Firsts

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• The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

  Rita Dove

  Mean, Joy, Grew

  Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.136, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

  Huston Smith

  Boys, Granted, Grew

  "Huston Smith: Rock star of religions turns 90" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

  Neil Peart

  Teenager, Kids, Simple

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• The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Doe, May, Superstitions

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• I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

  James Herbert

  Boys, Parent, Catholic

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• I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Musician, Wonderful, Grew

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