I’ve been a Lakers fan since growing up in Oklahoma. My hometown’s finally got the Thunder, which is really exciting, but I’ve still got to stick with the Lakers. – Matt Kemp
Growing up, I watched shows such as ‘Blackadder’ and ‘Monty Python’ with my parents. – Mathew Baynton
If you’ve got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you’re going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land. – Frances Mayes
When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino! – Meagan Good
When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It’s a status thing. – Martin Compston
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center. – Chris Cornell
It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren’t that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population. – Peter Capaldi
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn’t have anything growing up. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. – Dennis Ritchie
When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly. – Gene Luen Yang
As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy. – Denis McDonough
Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe. – Douglas Hurd
This is going to sound really sad, but I didn’t really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek. – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said. – Peter Falk
As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more. – George Takei
Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn’t subscribe to what everyone else was wearing. – Chris Benz
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless ‘neo-Victorian’ novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness. – N. K. Jemisin
I’ve had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress. – Evan Bayh
Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. – Elliott Abrams
I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‘sexy,’ even before I knew what the word was. – Dolly Parton
In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I’ve seen a growing sense of unity and mission. – George Carey