“I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.” WayStoriesAgeYoungImaginationDealsBoysSawsOur LivesSeeingGrewGrew UpTraditionImportanceStorytellingEncountersVillageMy ImaginationYoung AgeTelling StoriesSierraOral TraditionSierra LeoneSmall Villages Author:Ishmael Beah
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” ThinkingLifeFactsDreamKidsReadingChanceDealsEducationInspirational LifeGrew Author:Bill Gates
“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.” ShouldEyeCareActionMotherFoundUnderstandingMy OwnDealsToo MuchWiseSeeingJudgingGrewLessonsGrew UpEarsHearingFoolishEducatedLengthHer EyesPrudencePremature Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825 Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825
“In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.” EnoughDealsOpinionGrewGetting OldGetting OlderDementia Author:Michael Caine
“I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.” DealsGrewGrew UpRacismChicagoExposed Author:Don Cornelius
“To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.” BigsKidsDealsRocksGrewGrew UpSmartPunkBig DealPunk RockReally Smart Author:Matthew Lillard