I like to call the ethos I grew up with ‘Oklahoma values.’ But you’d be just as accurate if you said ‘American values.’ Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that’s American.

I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state

When people say this isn’t the America they grew up in, they’re right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.

I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia – I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

I grew up Mormon. I wasn’t really Mormon, my parents were.

My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me – when I move, when I do everything – are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I’m more from Spain. That’s how I grew up.

I’m not one of those New Yorkers who so much identifies themselves with the city that they can’t imagine living anywhere else. I plan to live a lot of other places, but it is defiantly is a big part of who I am. I have a complicated relationship with it. It has changed so much, but I love it, and it’s my home. I’m really glad I grew up there.

It’s funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

We who grew up with ‘drop and cover’ drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

The reason I always loved ‘The Omen’ so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that’s very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I’ve always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything

I Just Live Life. I Grew Up In A Christian Family, But, You Know, The Way Mom Brought Me Up Is To, You Know, Do You, To Always Be Yourself

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism – the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales

I grew up in cattle country-that’s why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I’d grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it’s so pure and powerful.

Deacon Jones grew up a street over from my grandfather, where I was raised.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn’t a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see ‘Annie’ and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

I grew up very quickly because of the difficulties and responsibilities that I have always had.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

I grew up in a household where we all celebrated who we were. There was no space to make people feel different or ‘less than

When I grew up, I always ate Frosties Kelloggs.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‘Perreos’ of Plan B

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I’ve never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It’s the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it – no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

I grew up in a funny way.

I love ‘Donnie Brasco’ and ‘Days of Thunder,’ so after I did ‘The Skulls,’ I was like, ‘I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!’ Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.’ They asked if I wanted to do it.

I’m a surfer. I grew up in Southern California and used to surf twice a day, every day.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

I hit this grind, the roof gon’ collapse

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

In life I know there’s lots of grief, but your love is my relief.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So, I just fought everybody

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late ’40’s and early ’50’s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival

We’re all just kids who grew up way too fast.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown