Brian Ortega Quotes

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

For the most part, people are proud of the place from which they come.

My formative years were in Jersey and I'm kind of Jersey at heart.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.

More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.

I was born there and I grew up in East L.A., not Hollywood.

For me, Barca was where I grew up since I was tiny, from eight years old.

Straight up, I'm from Waldorf, Maryland, you guys. Let's not forget that.

It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

I can't give up the allegiances I grew up with, given where I was born and where I grew up, but you won't see me at a Rutgers game rooting for somebody else. Let's put it that way.

I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.