1.
Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!
Tupac Shakur
'May the rose that sprouted from the pavement flourish despite lack of attention!'
3.
I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
Cameron Diaz
5.
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
Lord Mountbatten
8.
Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.
Kevin Smith
10.
The more I grew as a human being, the better I became at my craft.
R.A. Dickey
11.
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
Philip Larkin
12.
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'
Wesley Snipes
14.
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
William Eggleston
15.
If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.
Lawrence Korb
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I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.
Sarah Wynter
18.
I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
Uma Thurman
19.
I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.
Kelly Preston
20.
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
Bonnie Bedelia
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Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
Pietro Aretino
23.
Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.
Wes Bentley
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I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.
Matthew Perry
25.
I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
Keith Haring
27.
I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.
Chester Himes
28.
I grew up beyond proud - we didnt have much, but we had a lot of love.
Frankie Valli
30.
I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
Maureen O'Hara
31.
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
Will Durant
32.
Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
Obie Trice
33.
We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.
Bruno Mars
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Charles de Gaulle
35.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
J. R. R. Tolkien
36.
The planets. Now footnote, I'm including Pluto in the planets, because I think it's terrible what they did to Pluto. And it's still a planet to me. I grew up with Pluto as a planet, it will always be a planet.
Demetri Martin
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I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.
Irvine Welsh
38.
I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.
Carrie Underwood
39.
One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.
William Kamkwamba
40.
I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.
Shinya Yamanaka
41.
I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.
LeCrae
42.
I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.
Rainn Wilson
43.
I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.
Robert Longo
44.
...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.
Christopher Paolini
46.
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
Nas
47.
As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
Jack Kerouac
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I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.
Brett Dalton