“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.” YearsFirstsLittlesKidsBitsSportsGrowing UpFiveGrowingLittle BitAthleteTraditionalBeachRacingFreshmanSurferSkateboardingSophomoreSkateboarderSophomore YearBmxHuntington Beach Author:Jason Lee
“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.” FirstsWantedActingGrowing UpFiveGrowingPlayerAmbitionMusicianNineHockeyUsualHockey Player Author:Michael J. Fox
“I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.” IfsWantYearsMindCan DoHalfPrinciplesSupportGrowing UpFiveGrowingAgencyWweModelingHalf A YearYes You Can Author:Amy Weber
“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.” PeopleIfsMenGivingYearsFirstsI CanMatterWantedGrowsTalkingGrowing UpRecordsFiveSonGainsGoldNo Matter WhatParentingPhonesArtisticOld ManBeing ThereSeanMotorbike Author:John Lennon
“When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.” Growing UpFiveGrowingListeningBandHeavyDaveGrooveFunky Author:Eddie Van Halen
“I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.” AgeGrowsLevelsGrowing UpFiveGrewGrew UpRacing Author:Justin Allgaier
“Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.” LittlesKidsHouseCommunityGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingMilesAirports Author:Bo Jackson
“I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.” WayWantYearsLongWaterHoursGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingDistanceTeenageLong DistanceSwimmerTeenage Years Author:Scott Speedman
“When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.” PeopleWayDifferentGrowsCareersGrowing UpFiveFourLifetimeThese DaysDifferent Peoples Book:Miss Wyoming Source: Miss Wyoming
“The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.” WayYearsHumansHeartTwoStatesAmericaOrderFoundOpportunityNaturalUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpDemocracyFiveGrowingEconomicThousandHundredIdealsDemocraticArchitectureUnited States Of AmericaHuman HeartEconomic OrderOrganic Architecture Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.” PeopleYearsImportantAgeMemoriesGrowing UpFiveGrowingHappenedTenTangible Author:Jello Biafra
“I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.” IfsYearsProblemHouseSpeakSituationGrowing UpFiveGrowingDogRedLibraryExcuseFive YearsNo ProblemExcuse MePineapplesSpeaks French Author:Eugene Mirman