Grew Quotes - Page 2

• I grew up in Brooklyn.

  Johnny Kelly

  Brooklyn, Grew Up

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• Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

  Kent McCord

  Tough, Grew Up, Neighborhood

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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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• Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

  Boz Scaggs

  Black, Radio, Sides

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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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• Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

  Kirstie Alley

  Alcohol, Drug, Culture

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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

  Melissa Gilbert

  Dysfunctional Family, Grew Up

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Ignorant

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• I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that indeed I am a man.

  Johnny Weir

  Men, Littles, Beard

  "Johnny Weir Fires Back At Critics", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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 2 walk without having feet

  Tupac Shakur

  Law, Feet, Rose

  Song: (Poetry) The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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• And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Three, Size

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Growing Up, Dust, Ashes

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

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• Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

  Tupac Shakur

  Long, Rose, Concrete

  "The Rose that Grew from Concrete".

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  Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Goal, Stay True To Yourself

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Who I Am, Energy, Negative

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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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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• I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

  Sara Blakely

  Brother, Dad, Father

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• I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

  Mary J. Blige

  School, Cutting, Journey

  "Queen Mary". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

  Allan Bloom

  Music, Children, Silver Platter

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Children, Passion

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• I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

  John Boehner

  Big Families, Done, Grew Up

  "Boehner: Sometimes I'm 'Gestapo'" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. January 24, 2014.

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• When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

  Alain de Botton

  Children, Father, Grew Up

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