(409 quotes found)
“When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.”
Bernadette Peters
“I grew up sort of like a princess. I know that sounds awful, but I was the baby of the family. I had older brothers, so the little girl always gets everything she wants. As I've gotten older, I've realized that if you want something bad enough, you can have it. I've never gone after something I didn't get. Not yet.”
Rachel Bilson
“I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.”
Cameron Diaz
“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough, / That sometime grew within this learnèd man.”
Christopher Marlowe
“we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how”
Tupac Shakur
“I grew up in the '40s and I heard all these great speeches, like Winston Churchill. His most famous, or infamous commencement exercise speech was one that consisted of seven words. He stood before this graduating class and said: "Never, never, never, never give up."”
Johnny Cash
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.”
Brandon Boyd
“I grew up on a farm and went to Iowa State. I planned to go into Extension, but my adviser said we bought seeds from Ball and I should try interviewing with them. That was 24 years ago and I have been doing the trials ever since.”
Jim Nau
“Peter O'Malley grew up in the '50s around the clubhouse, so all of us who were playing in his kid days mean a lot to him. Peter's made a very conscious effort to reconnect the Brooklyn team with the Los Angeles history, and he's done that.”
Carl Erskine
