Top 495 Grown Quotes

I wanted to be with the kind of people I’d grown up with, but you can’t go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Ethel Waters
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that’s how I got my first backers. But fashion’s a scary industry to be in, especially if you’ve not grown up with it.
Alexander McQueen
My best friend, who I grew up with in Paris, is Indian. So, I’ve grown up listening to a lot of Bollywood songs and watching a lot of Bollywood movies, old and new.
DJ Snake
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Stanford Moore
I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I’ve grown up black and biracial in the United States.
Natasha Trethewey
I’ve grown up in the public eye, and every decision I’ve made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.
Martine McCutcheon
I’m the mold that grunge was grown in.
Townes Van Zandt
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down – like the mainstream media we so mocked.
Nick Denton
I’m the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I’ve grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
Tamala Jones
I don’t know if there’s only one God, I don’t know if there’s a God, I just have a faith that there is. That’s what I’ve grown up with.
Guy Sebastian
I’ve grown up with my parents’ music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
Saoirse Ronan
Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.
Rose George
Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
Adam Sandler
You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.
Greg Ginn
I do not want to die… until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz
As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America’s children as Hillary Clinton.
Donna Brazile
Writing was something I have always been interested in. I’ve grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
Alexandra Adornetto
Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as ‘cool,’ ‘not cool,’ ‘jock,’ ‘bombshell,’ ‘quirky’… it’s like a caste system. You’re either in, or you’re out.
Zoe Kravitz
I’ve grown up a little bit. I’m almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I’ve been around a long time.
Chris O’Donnell
I’ve grown up in the Treme, and I played in a bunch of brass bands. My brother, James Andrews, had a brass band.
Trombone Shorty
I’ve grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.
Thom Mayne
I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz
My character’s kind of grown up with Katniss. The beginning of the story, they’re more or less brother and sister than anything. They’re best friends. They’ve been keeping each other alive. It’s a little frustrating, for the character. As the character, not as me.
Liam Hemsworth
I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, ‘Oh she’s grown up,’ but to show people that I’m actually a girl.
Maisie Williams
Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children’s life, I had to learn my lessons.
Bobby Brown
Homosexuality is a way of life that I’ve grown accustomed to.
Johnny Mathis
Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
Jack Reed
Be sure to buy organic versions of the ‘dirty dozen:’ the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery.
Suzanne Somers
I have grown up now… with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.
Neha Kakkar
The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching ‘The Simpsons,’ so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I’m not funny anymore.
Matt Groening
I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.
Aravind Adiga
We’re all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can’t be stopped!
Natasha Hamilton
I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.
Max Minghella
Afraid no, I wasn’t afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
Ralph Boston
Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown… they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Anna Freud
Yes the moustache appeared for the first time about 10 years ago and it was grown as a joke of course but I discovered I quite liked it. I preferred it and my wife prefers it. I got married in it and she wont come near me when Im clean shaven.
Mike Wozniak
For someone like me, who has grown up with Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, it’s hard not to invest a lot of myself in what I do.
Boy George
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
Phillips Brooks
You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.
Malcolm Wallop
If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up – thank you very much – when Julia Child’s book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.
Nora Ephron
I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.
The Weeknd
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue.
Howard Schultz
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. W

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Sigmund Freud
We entered into the pharmaceutical industry in 1988, and since then, we have grown significantly on the back of a growing demand in India for pharmaceutical products.
Ajay Piramal
I like to think I’ve grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.
Kim Edwards
The whole experience on ‘Grown Ups 2’ was like going to adult summer camp.
Halston Sage
Women are constantly taught to think about what other people are thinking, from those ‘Jackie’ magazine quizzes – ‘What’s he thinking?’ – to being a grown adult.
Viv Albertine
Taiwan’s democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
Annette Lu
I’m super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.
Anna Getty
Look at the exposure I am getting, and look at what I am learning from people at literally an arm’s length. I am truly privileged to have that experience and even sitting and working with people who I have grown up with. You learn a lot from their experiences.
Roshni Nadar
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Let’s just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
Naveen Andrews
I’m a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.
Christina Milian
I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.
David Thewlis
My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she’d grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college – and then worked to put her brothers through school.
Robert Wilson
Britain needs a diverse energy mix – home grown renewables, new nuclear, a switch from dirty coal to cleaner gas, and, when the technology is ready, carbon capture and storage. Diversity will keep the lights on and ensure we go green at the lowest possible cost.
Ed Davey
I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
Steve Jobs
I feel that I’ve grown up a little bit and I’m actually ready to settle down.
Peter Steele
In football, you’re dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you’re dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There’s a huge difference. At that age, you’re not confident enough to have a voice.
Dominique Moceanu