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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. -- Harriet Tubman
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
I grew up in Brooklyn. -- Johnny Kelly
I grew up in a dysfunctional family. -- Melissa Gilbert
Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood. -- Kent McCord
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. -- Salvador Dali
Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared. -- Tupac Shakur
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town. -- Aaron Paul
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven. -- Keren Ann
I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing. -- Jay Hernandez
I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man. -- Johnny Weir
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. -- Louise Erdrich
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up. -- Anita Diament
And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day -- Dr. Seuss
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. -- Charley Pride
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. -- Bruce Springsteen
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
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
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
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
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. -- Michelle Obama
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
I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
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
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
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain. -- Dan Aykroyd
I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives. -- Jack Davenport
All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy. -- Kristen Bell
My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach. -- Luca Parmitano
I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero. -- Young Jeezy
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
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. -- Elton John
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40. -- Elizabeth Warren
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.' -- John Landis
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully. -- Tatiana Maslany
My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. -- Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes. -- Curtis Jackson
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
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
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
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't. -- Amy Adams
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. -- Tom Ford
South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds. -- John Edwards
As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did. -- Artie Lange
I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around. -- Q-Tip
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent. -- Matthew Quick
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. -- Carol Ann Duffy
I grew up in Minnesota. -- Sean William Scott
I grew up amongst biologists. -- Margaret Atwood
I grew up in Mumbai. -- Fareed Zakaria
I grew up with artists. -- Jason Momoa
I grew up rock climbing. -- Jason Momoa
Social media really grew up. -- Kevin Rose
I grew up with British rock. -- Bryan Adams
I grew up in Sheepshead Bay. -- Jim Gaffigan
I grew up performing in theatre. -- Valorie Curry
Television and I grew up together. -- Roger Ailes
I grew up doing musical theater. -- Chris Colfer
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull. -- Vincent Cassel
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Honestly, I grew up with Disney. -- David Giuntoli
I grew up in the theatre. -- Jeremy Piven
I grew up on the game. -- Philip Rivers
I grew up in New York. -- Yunjin Kim
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings. -- Gregory Maguire
I grew up in Plano, Texas. -- Hunter Parrish
I grew up in the suburbs. -- Rosemarie DeWitt
I grew up cursing a lot. -- Adam Sandler
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. -- Alexander Pope
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.' -- Vincent Cassel
I grew up kissing books and bread. -- Salman Rushdie
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble. -- Kin Hubbard
I grew up in an all-white community. -- Gayle King
I grew up listening to English music. -- Ryan Tedder
Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew. -- Samuel Rogers
I grew up in an underprivileged home. -- Chris Kirkpatrick
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I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago. -- Jim Gaffigan
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. -- Ryan Reynolds
Well, I grew up as a democrat. -- Chuck Norris
I pretty much grew up in public. -- Julia Stiles
I grew up on radio, not TV. -- David Lee Roth
I grew up as an only child. -- Mitchell Baker
I grew up a massive Beatles fan. -- Dominic Monaghan
I grew up in the United States. -- Dominique de Villepin
I grew up in the art world. -- Cary Elwes
I grew up listening to old soul -- Erykah Badu
I grew up as a country boy. -- Ian Somerhalder
I grew up in a Navy family. -- Elizabeth Edwards
I grew up in a funny way. -- Gordon Ramsay
I grew up in a happy household. -- Kristen Stewart
I grew six inches in a year. -- Karlie Kloss
I grew up a diehard Yankees fan. -- Bubba Watson
I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007. -- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees -- Matt Groening
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. -- Alicia Keys
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. -- Janina Gavankar
When I became a Christian my confidence grew. -- Cliff Richard
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. -- George R. R. Martin
I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia. -- Mike Vogel
I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California. -- G-Eazy
I grew up reading books about heroic collies. -- Cathleen Schine
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. -- Jackson Browne
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family. -- Laura Z. Hobson
I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me. -- Troian Bellisario
I grew up being teased for being overweight. -- Kelly Price
The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together, -- Al Smith
Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive. -- J. Lynn
I grew up in front of a TV. -- Jemaine Clement
...and down they forgot as up they grew. -- e. e. cummings
I love theater. I grew up doing theater. -- Dan Fogler
People feel like they grew up with me. -- Molly Ringwald
Well, I grew up on the blues, man! -- Gil Scott-Heron
I grew up in a very toxic home. -- Bethenny Frankel
I grew up on a tiny little island. -- Samantha Barks
I grew up with all kinds of people. -- Vin Diesel
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. -- Baz Luhrmann

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