Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia MacLachlan

I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.

Patrick O'Brian

Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.

Patrick Chan

When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

Russell Tovey

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

Jack White

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me.

Vivian Campbell

Yeah, Yngwie Malmsteen is mind-blowing, but I can't listen to it! At the time I couldn't listen to it! But I grew up wanting to be like that.

Dave King

You know, to us, every day is St. Patrick's Day. We started off in a bar, and we grew from there.

Byron Dorgan

You know, I come from a rural state, I grew up around guns, ... As a teenager I had a rifle and shotgun, so ...

Hilda Solis

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.

Henry Thomas

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

Halston Sage

I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

Martin Mull

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

We're really pleased with the defense. We have 10 new starters on defense. They grew up in a hurry and hung in there.

Paul Simonon

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

Pearl Cleage

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

Megan Fox

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

Madonna Ciccone

Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

Prince Royce

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.

Prince Royce

I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.

Peter Hermann

I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.

Phil Klay

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

Phil Everly

I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.

Harry Styles

I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

When we met, we were respectful at first, then we grew to be brothers.

Frankie Valli

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

Iyanla Vanzant

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

Robin Wright

I grew up very fast as a young girl, but I grew slowly into my womanhood.

Craig Brewer

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

Anne Wojcicki

I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.

Action Bronson

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

Anthony Browne

I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.