“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.” CountryKidsThreeGrewOfficeGrew UpStoresPostsRailroadsPost Office Author:Jeff Sessions
“China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.” CountryCultureEnvironmentGrewShapesGrew UpRelationChinaRelatedDaily LifeFamily FriendsBirthplace Author:Ai Weiwei
“I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.” ThinkingFeelsCountryReadingFatherLiteratureBrotherGrewGrew UpBrothers And SistersCousinStepfathersChileans Author:Alejandro Zambra
“I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.” DifferentCountryMatterAgeNamesBoysFieldsSonGrewMomDadGrew UpBuiltTownsRaisedMy MomMy SonSouthernGrandfatherSmall TownCornMy GrandfatherBackyardsIndianaMom And Dad Author:Mike Pence
“As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.” MenHas BeensCountryDreamOrderCultureUnderstandingGrewGrew UpDecadesImmigrationLatinAmerican Dream Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it.” SaidCountryGrewEatingGrew UpBotherChickensFarmsSnakes Author:Malcolm X
“My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.” ChildrenDifferentCountryStrongGrewGrew UpMy ChildrenSpiteDragResourcefulDifferent Families Author:Dolores Huerta
“We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened.” PeopleKnowsMayCountryFactsMightKidsSchoolYoungPurposeThreeParentGoneFiveGroupsCollegeReadyGrewGrew UpPracticalsThreatenedPaperwork Author:Barack Obama
“Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like they say, the past is a foreign country - but I think this is intensified for children whose parents also grew up in a geographically foreign country.” ThinkingChildrenDifferentCountryPastUsedLanguageParentGenerationsGrewGrew UpPeersForeign CountriesDifferent LanguagesSpoken Language Author:Elif Batuman
“I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.” KindCountrySongGrewDadGrew UpArmyPoliceMy DadOur CountryBelongingIronicEstablishmentUpbringingLoving YouCounterculture Author:Mike Dirnt
“I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.” CountryGuyKnowingGrewGrew UpChinaOur CountryCommunistBad GuysCommunist China Author:Ang Lee
“The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.” CountryCrimeGrewGrew UpHighestRateLondonCrime Rates Author:Leona Lewis
“I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.” KnowsCountryBigsKidsMiddleGrewGrew UpMythologyFarmsIowaBig Families Author:Kellan Lutz
“I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.” I CanCountryCan DoFiveGrewProudGrew UpPercentIncreaseCleverAdsEightyCountry Life Author:John Lydon