“When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.” MindRealWantedChangedCollegeGrewGrew UpDoctorsLawyerOccupation Author:Tia Mowry
“I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.” FeltRealizingSpaceCrazyChangedGrewGrew UpMy FamilyNeighborhoodRetreatFloatingOverwhelmedVirginia Author:Dave Grohl
“In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.” MenBornFoodChangedGrewMomGrew UpCookingMy MomCooksKitchenRestaurantsGrandmotherMy GrandmotherSwedenEthiopia Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.” PeopleStillsFatherPoorPovertyMissingChangedGrewGrew UpPoor PeopleThings ChangeDiplomatsSomalia Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.” WayChildrenLittlesSaidDifferentEnoughKidsChangedGrewMomInternetComputerGrew UpOkayMachinesMy ChildrenElectricityTeenageAnswering MachinesTeenage Life Author:Jennifer Egan
“The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.” PeopleAttitudeCrimeChangedGrewGrew UpGunNot AfraidFirearms Author:Antonin Scalia
“I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'” KindHandsMorningChangedGrewGrew UpLandscapePrimeSaturdayCartoonAnimationSaturday MorningPrime TimeFlintstones Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.” WayYearsStillsDifferentCountryReligiousMemoriesChangedGrewGrew UpFinalsConservativeProgressiveMistakenTehranBeirutKabul Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we grew up, images were telling stories and showing them. Now they're all into selling. They've changed under our very eyes. They don't even know how to do it anymore. They've plain forgotten. Images are selling out the world. And at a big discount.” KnowsWorldStoriesBigsEyeUsedKnow HowChangedGrewGrew UpForgottenSellingUsed To BeTrustedTelling StoriesDiscountsSelling Out Author:Wim Wenders
“I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.” KnowsChildrenJobsWhiteFiveChangedGrewGrew UpMilesQueensLibrarianEpiphanyHarlem Author:Lynne Stewart
“I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.” MindChangedGrewGrew UpConservativeMum Author:Elton John