“The way I lived, I grew up in a time where people would take your shoes, they'll take your jacket, they'll take your cheese without a gun. So people would jump on you - this was like fourteen, fifteen years old. So it always taught me that you gotta have your crew, in some ways you gotta move, don't put your self in harm's way, and definitely if you're a street dude and want any kind off credibility, don't put yourself under the mercy of anybody else, or you'll be at their mercy; they can do what they want to do to you.” PeopleIfsWayWantYearsKindSelfMovingCan DoStreetsTaughtGrewGrew UpGunMercyShoesHarmCheeseFifteenCrewCredibilityJacketsFourteenFifteen YearsFifteen Years Old Author:Gucci Mane
“I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.” PeopleFeelsWritingLittlesSometimesEnoughHappensLiteratureCausesTermGrewGrew UpNotionNobleEncountersSincereIdealisticNoble CausesBeing Sincere Author:Oscar Hijuelos
“I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.” PeopleWorldLittlesBitsWalksAcceptingTeachGrewLittle BitGrew UpBiggerSelfishI've LearnedJust BeingWalks Of Life Author:Michael Che
“I grew up with a sense of tolerance. I don't know that there was any talk about gender differences. It was respect for people. So when I became a professional and saw that there were a lot of differences in the sense of how people lived their lives, I became respectful of their territory, of their thoughts and their ideas, and it was never a problem for me to feel that this is my sister, this is my brother.” PeopleKnowsFeelsIdeasProblemDifferencesSawsBrotherGrewGrew UpGenderToleranceMy BrotherTerritoryMy SisterRespectfulGender Differences Author:David C. Driskell
“This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.” PeopleWayShouldMeanChildrenTwoPastMotherFeltSoundCareersGrowing UpTeacherGrowingGenerationsPlanetsGrewMarriedGrew UpMathPassingPassingsFormerFantasticNurseMath Teacher Author:Sherry Lansing
“I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.” PeopleStarsStuffTermRocksGrewNormalGrew UpConceptsSurroundingsRock Star Author:Anthony Kiedis
“I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasMightLyingNightWinningGoalWorryGrewGrew UpCapableGoldNo IdeaAwakeMedalGold MedalsUraniumCrosby Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.” PeopleWorldBlackWhiteNew YorkGrewGrew UpTownsSouthernBlack PeopleTouristsSubwayColumbiaAstounded Author:Tony Kushner
“I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.” PeopleIfsMenFeelingsHandsBitsWhiteGrewGrew UpAll ThingsResponseAffairCurrentsBoxingEasternPencilsImpatienceLove AffairPajamas Author:Hugh Laurie
“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.” PeopleWorldMadeWarAmericaCoursesGrewColdGrew UpWar Of The WorldsJapanVietnamWorld War IiProtectedCold WarExtensionsAsiaVietnam WarKoreanTaiwanKorean WarGood War Author:Ang Lee
“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.” PeoplePoetryMemoriesPoetGrewGrew UpGood Memories Book:So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews Source: So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews
“Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.” PeopleWorldMindChildrenLittlesMightJobsGrowsGrowing UpCollegeGrewMarriedGrew UpTraditionalGrandchildrenDallas Author:Lisa Loeb
“A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.” PeopleWantBelieveDifferentGrewLoversFameGrew UpThese DaysDifferent ThingsMusic Lover Author:Shirley Manson
“I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.” PeopleChildrenMemoriesListeningGrewGrew UpKneesGrandmotherMy GrandmotherOld PeopleElders Author:Hilary Mantel
“I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of The Brady Bunch. Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying “hi” to everyone, whether they knew me or not.” PeopleWayLongMightYoungGirlGrowing UpGrowingStreetsGrewGrew UpExpectedBunchDespiteMy WaySpiteBarriersChicagoEpisodesDeafSuburbsSkatingBradySaying HiGirls Growing UpBrady Bunch Author:Marlee Matlin
“I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?” PeopleIfsKnowsFunPoorWorryGrewGrew UpLet MeStressMiserableMaking MoneyHaving FunLike SomethingMakin MoneyStress And Worry Author:Jenny McCarthy
“I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.” PeopleGrewGrew UpScoreAthletics Author:Phil McGraw
“People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.” PeopleClassCollegeGrewGrew UpTownsLike MeWorking ClassCollege Education Author:Michael Moore
“I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.” PeopleIfsInspirationWould BeGrewGrew UpTowns Author:Chris O'Dowd
“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.” PeopleKnowsWritingChildrenAnimalKnow HowStrangeGrewGrew UpPagesAdultsBottomDrawingChickensFarmsHandwritingScribbles Author:Joyce Carol Oates