Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!"
Grew quotes
Grew
215 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me."
Kevin Smith
Filmmaker
"Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up."
Jenifer Lewis
Actress, Singer
"We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up."
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"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."
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"I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew."
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"I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did."
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"I wept not — so to stone I grew within."
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"As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual."
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"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."
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"As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind."
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"In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew."
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"I grew up in a dysfunctional family."
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"Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape"
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"The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration."
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"I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it."
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"...and down they forgot as up they grew."
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"The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout."
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"Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble."
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"All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met."
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"Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you."
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"I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me."
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"Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger."
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"I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up."
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"I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody."
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