Grew Quotes

• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

  Bill Bryson

  Night, Ice Cream, Childhood

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.115, VNR AG

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• I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Tired, Humor

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• I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

  Janice Dickinson

  Father, Home, Boys

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• We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Writing, Stuff

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• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "Eddie Izzard: Glorious". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

  Heidi Klum

  Family, Children, Kids

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• I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

  Frank Langella

  Home, Grew Up, Household

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• There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

  Philip Levine

  Memories, People, Poetry

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I grew up in a house with very few books.

  Ken Livingstone

  Book, House, Grew Up

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• I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Tough, Kind

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• I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Teenager, School, House

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• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Phoenix

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

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• I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Family, Issues, Political

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• My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

  Joan Van Ark

  Brother, House, Mark

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• I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

  Adrian Grenier

  New York, Escaping, Twins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

  Louise Erdrich

  Inspirational, Talking, America

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• 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 between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

  Keren Ann

  Israel, France, Grew Up

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• I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

  Keith Miller

  Pain, Successful, Men

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• I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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• Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dream, Persistence, Feet

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, Artist, Cities

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• I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

  Anita Diament

  Nannies, Grew Up, Mary

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• I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

  Jay Hernandez

  Play, Grew Up, Raiders

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