“Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.” IfsKnowsWayWantI CanKidsGrewNormalGrew UpToughAdvantageAcceptedGuidanceAnother WayWay To LiveParentalPlaces I've BeenParental Guidance Author:Christian Hosoi
“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentPlayKidsChurchGrowing UpGrowingFiguresListeningGrewWorshipGrew UpJazzGuitarBackgroundsPlentyOddDifferent ThingsUniquenessNerdAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Michael Gungor
“I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.” LongEnoughKidsGrewGrew UpPicksMy FamilyMovedSouthAccentsSouthernerMemphis Author:Chris Hardwick
“I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.” KindKidsGrewGrew UpAlleysPlaygroundsBowlingBowling Alleys Author:Chris Hardwick
“I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.” WorldKidsFatherHellTroubleMaterialsGrewSixGrew UpDiedLatterSentimentsTwelveBetter PlaceSurvivingGood WillMake You HappyMaterial ThingsFather DiedTuberculosisRedirection Author:Bernie Siegel
“I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.” KidsWantedSchoolTogetherTeacherHairGrewGrew UpDancingDancerBalletBallerinaBunsConservatoryDance Teacher Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.” WayWholeKidsGrewDrugSafeGrew UpTownsEdgesPunkSmall TownHogStraight EdgePunk Music Author:Daughn Gibson
“You got to miss class to do it. Like, many periods of school. And then they took us to an elementary or middle school, and we told kids that they could be cool when they grew up even if they didn't do drugs.” IfsKidsSchoolClassMiddleMissingGrewPeriodsDrugGrew UpBeing CoolMiddle School Author:Ilana Glazer
“I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.” WorldWould BeKidsSawsGrewGrew UpCarefreeHappy Kid Author:Angelina Jolie
“I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.” PeopleKidsParentGrewGrew UpTough Author:John Darnielle
“I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.” KindKidsSportsTeamNew YorkGrewGrew UpCanadaYankeesSports Team Author:Ian Astbury
“It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.” MeanKidsSchoolChristianCausesReligiousMorningGrowing UpStudyGrowingGrewGrew UpBritishImmigrantsSundayIronicChapelSunday MorningKids Growing UpReligious StudiesIronic Things Author:Aasif Mandvi
“I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.” ThinkingKidsSchoolSpiritualMoralGrewGrew UpGratefulOrganizedSundayCompassOrganized ReligionInstillSunday SchoolMoral CompassGood Moral Author:Taryn Manning
“We always spend the summer together. My wife and kids, we always go back to Massachusetts and spend the summer there near where my wife and I both grew up. I wasn't willing to sacrifice the summer to go elsewhere.” KidsTogetherWifeSacrificeWillingGrewSummerGrew UpMy WifeElsewhereMassachusettsMy Wife And Kids Author:Steve Carell
“Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen.” KidsMotherPassionFiveGrewGrew UpKitchenChefGourmet Author:Laura Prepon
“I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.” MeanPlayKidsArtistGoalHappenedGrewGrew UpTownsFatsConcertsSmall TownViolinMinnesotaFat Kid Author:Gretchen Carlson
“I have a real hunger to experience life. I'm really, really inspired by my family. I grew up with my family, really did a lot; we took a lot of road trips, we did a lot of different businesses, we'd always tried stuff. For me, that just kind of sparked something from the time I was a kid.” KindDifferentRealKidsStuffGrewGrew UpMy FamilyInspiredHungerRoad Trip Author:Omar Benson Miller
“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
“All the kids that I grew up with, in an almost idyllic environment - I've got to tell you, it was so wonderful - they've gone on and they're doctors and Ph.D.'s and everybody has a four-year college degree. None of our parents, I think, had a four-year degree.” ThinkingYearsKidsParentGoneEnvironmentFourWonderfulCollegeGrewDegreesGrew UpDoctorsFour YearsCollege DegreeIdyllic Author:Jeff Sessions
“I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.” WayYearsKidsHateGrewMomColdDadHusbandNormalGrew UpMy DadMy MomWeatherMy HusbandSkiingCold Weather Author:Julie Bowen
“Essentially, my kids grew up with the emphasis on the environment because I became a political activist in about 1969 and it was not an easy time. Those were the days when the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the show and anybody speaking about solar energy or carbon energy would get smashed down as being a radical or a tree-hugger or what have you. So I was out there feeling very often alone and my kids would get that.” ShowsFeelingsKidsPoliticalEnergyEasyCompanyEnvironmentTreeGrewGrew UpOilRadicalGasActivistControlledCarbonEmphasisOil And GasSolar Energy Author:Robert Redford
“I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.” WorldFeelsSeemsKidsUsedHouseBornGrewRight NowGrew UpPhonesComplicatedRotary Author:Dan Mangan
“When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.” FirstsChildrenTwoKidsYoungUsedInterestingNew YorkGrewWalkingGrew UpDistanceZoosBronx Author:Garry Winogrand
“I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.” KidsFilmHouseNiceNew YorkHugeGrewGrew UpHollywoodImpressionFlatsFarmsCowboyCozyHollywood Films Author:Andrea Arnold
“I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!” KidsGamesParentDangerTelevisionGrewComputerGrew UpCountrysideComputer Games Author:Charlie Brooker
“I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.” KidsGenerationsGrewGrew UpMacs Author:Paula Scher
“[ Full English breakfast] it's what we grew up with! It is the one big treat that the kids get on the weekend - it's good family time.” BigsKidsGrewGrew UpTreatsBreakfastWeekendGood FamilyFamily Time Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.” YearsFirstsKindKidsYoungUsedGirlChurchBoysHappenedGrewGrew UpOpeningUsed To BeJust OneYoung WomenAltarsDeliverySuburbsCleveland Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.” LittlesKidsEnjoyGrewGrew UpSandwichesPeanutsJellyPeanut ButterCrackersPeanut Butter And Jelly Author:Michael T. Flynn
“I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.” KidsAgeChurchFivePiecesFourGrewGrew Up Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.” PeopleHandsKidsTodayParentGrewGrew UpBabysitter Author:Brett Morgen
“Our kids grew up here [in the White House]. Some of our best friends have been made here in this place. There have been moments that were highlights for us - that - you know, are going to be hard to duplicate.” KnowsHas BeensMadeHardMomentsKidsHouseWhiteGrewGrew UpWhite HouseHighlightsDuplicate Author:Barack Obama
“Anyone who grew up in the crack era - you know, I grew up in that era - knew that there were also people out - and there are still guys to this day that are out there, you know, obviously drug dealing - but those were the guys who had access and had money. And some of those guys felt responsible to create opportunity for other people and were also aware of the dangers of their work and often aren't really the ones that are encouraging kids to get into drug dealing.” PeopleKnowsStillsKidsGuyOpportunityFeltDangerGrewDrugGrew UpResponsibleAccessErasThis DayCracks Author:Mahershala Ali
“I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.” HardPlayKidsWantedFightingGrowing UpGrowingFansFootballGrewGrew UpBaseballMovedEastNebraskaFootball Fan Author:Houston Alexander
“I grew up in that, when I was a kid. My friends and I used to play cowboys and Indians. We were cowboys killing the Indians, following the Wild West stories. All of this combined into a very strange culture, which is frightened.” PlayStoriesKidsUsedCultureStrangeGrewGrew UpMy FriendsWestKillingFollowingFrightenedCowboyWild West Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.” ThinkingWayProblemKidsNaturalPlansFiguresGrewAuthorityGrew UpYeahAngleDnaIdentifyingAuthority Figures Author:Denis Leary
“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
“The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.” KnowsKidsSchoolCultureHousePoorClassStreetsFineGrewCoupleGrew UpShockNeighborhoodJuniorsJunior HighCulture ShockSchool Districts Author:Lynda Barry
“I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.” KnowsYearsKidsInterestingActingGrewGrew UpHorseCarefulPartnersArgentinaGood Acting Author:Viggo Mortensen