Grew Quotes - Page 3

• I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

  Julie Bowen

  Sports, School, Hockey

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• I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

  Brandon Boyd

  Thinking, Grey, Procrastinating

  "Song: 'A Certain Shade of Green'". 2004.

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• When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Country, Play

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• We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

  Stephen Breyer

  San Francisco, California, Judging

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• First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Kissing, Romantic Love

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Community, Downtown

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• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Kids, Successful

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• As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

  Julie Burchill

  Pain, Real, Kids

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

  Tim Burton

  Simplicity, Childhood, Trying

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• I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

  Gary Busey

  Oklahoma, Texas, Grew Up

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Finest, Grew Up

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• I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

  Albert Camus

  Light, Able, Pleasure

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Luxury, Poverty

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

  John le Carre

  Father, Book, Grew Up

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• I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Retirement, Struggle, Thinking

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• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, African American

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• I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

  Nick Cave

  Country, Influence, Grew Up

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• I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.

  Jackie Chan

  Kids, Cowboy, Years

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

  Kyle Chandler

  Chicago, Fans, Bears

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

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  Kyle Chandler

  Brother, Dad, College

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

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• I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

  Hugo Chavez

  Kids, House, Tree

  Interview with Ted Koppel, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2005.

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• It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

  Kenny Chesney

  Sports, School, Church

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• I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

  Kenny Chesney

  East, Tennessee, Grew Up

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• I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

  Lee Child

  Grew Up, Birmingham, Made

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• I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

  Margaret Cho

  Gay, Milk, Remember

  "Margaret Cho: funny and fierce". Interview with Michael James Rocha, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. November 27, 2013.

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