I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

I grew up with the religion of ‘Star Wars,’ frankly. That’s when I realized there is something bigger out there… and it’s called The Force.

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn’t being cultivated.

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

I grew up as a tomboy, so I’m used to being around guys.

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

Golf isn’t just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges – the...

I grew up in Plano, Texas.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it – as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren’t many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I’ve blocked it out, but I don’t think so.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don’t have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We’re very...

I don’t have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that’s how I got into film, actually.

I grew up with British rock.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring...

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren’t politicised enough, frankly.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger...

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the...

But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

I grew up near King’s Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don’t eat like that anymore.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I’m Italian.

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.

I grew up listening to English music.

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript...

I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like...

I grew up with ‘Star Trek,’ so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

I’m not an ’80s fan. I’m more ’70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with ’90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.