“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
“From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition.” WantMindLittlesAnimalBoysImagineChildhoodChangedGrewBecomingAmbitionImpressionJungleLittle BoysExplorersWild AnimalEarly Childhood Author:John Goddard
“The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.” IfsTryingBelieveMeanDifferentFactsProblemTodayEarthFoundSeaLandPositionChangedRevolutionGrewElementsBasesClimateDon't BelieveAncientDogmaContinentsGeologyOrbitAxesRotationNorth Pole Author:Immanuel Velikovsky
“Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.” WorldMeanHas BeensFatherMoralRightsEconomicExampleChangedGrewGeniusEqualCommitmentConstitutionIndependenceBillsLikesDefinedEnterpriseDeclarationFoundingLiberatingOur Founding FathersDeclaration Of IndependenceBill Of RightsEconomic SystemsFree EnterpriseWhat It Means To Be An American Author:Mitt Romney
“The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.” MadeLightBehindsAliveSeaRocksChangedMaterialsGrewGoldenDesertSandAngleTime Of DaySaharaApricots Book:Force of circumstance Source: Force of circumstance
“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
“Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.” WholeFormBlackForeverRocksChangedGrewSceneRock And RollChanged My LifeAll BlackMotownGospel MusicBlack Music Author:Elton John
“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
“It was really phenomenal [Warren Buffett donation]. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.” GivingFactsRunningWifePlansChangedGrewDiedFoundationPhenomenalDonationBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates