Grew Quotes - Page 38

• My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  America, Kitchen, Grandfather

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• I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

  Billy Sherwood

  Father, Leader, Musical

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• Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Horse, Children

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• It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Civilization, Cities, Firsts

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• Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She never went to college but she wanted each and every one of us to go to college and then work. She was relentless about it. And i think that part of who i am is shaped by her strength. If [girls] families support them, they can achieve their dreams

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

  Bryan Singer

  Motivational, Kids, Numbers

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• Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gay, Bird, Seems

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.327

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• I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.

  Nolan Ryan

  Thinking, People, Way

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• I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

  George Andrew Olah

  Country, Children, War

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• I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Identity, Culture, Emotion

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• I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

  Peter Garrett

  Issues, Choices, Parent

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

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• When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.

  Michel de Certeau

  Dancer, Stories, Subtle

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• I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.

  Mario Balotelli

  School, Italian, Proud

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• Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.

  David Stockman

  Wall, Years, Elephants

  "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America". Book by David Stockman, 2013.

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• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  Obie Trice

  Fans, Grew Up, Stills

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

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• I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Kids, Age, Church

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• I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

  Karen Mills

  Successful, America, Important

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• My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

  David Rudisha

  Encouragement, Father, Athlete

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• Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

  Justin Sane

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

  S.M. Stirling

  Grit, Pearls, Sometimes

  S. M. Stirling (2012). “Lord of Mountains: A Novel of the Change”, p.23, Penguin

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• I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Beautiful, Village, Quaint

  "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  Ken Danby

  Strong, Growing Up, Numbers

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• Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.

  Pierre Loti

  Children, Growing Up, Men

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• I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

  Pierre Loti

  Past, June, Self

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• Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.

  Caryll Houselander

  Mother, Silence, Simplicity

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