“I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.” TwoKidsBeautifulUsedHateHouseGrewGrew UpGardenGrandmotherWeedGardeningMy GrandmotherLawnsLoatheGarden LoveMowingMowing The Lawn Author:Elton John
“I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.” HomeKidsBeautifulMotherWhitePovertyGrewGrew UpParksTrashMobilePlaygroundsWhite TrashLoving Mother Author:Taryn Manning
“I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.” WarKidsWantedThreeActorsStarsGrewBasketballGrew UpBritishBritainHoodEmulateRobinsGreat BritainSwimmerRobin HoodFencingHighlanderMusketeersThree Musketeers Author:Kieran Bew
“What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.” SometimesFeelingsKidsBornDangerousGrewGrew UpRedChaosZoneNormChaotic Author:Patricia Arquette
“When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.” WantChildrenDifferentHelpingKidsSchoolMovingGoalClassTeacherGrewGrew UpBlindTrainDisabilityOrganizeDeafMy FutureTanzaniaFuture Goals Author:Herieth Paul
“When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.” KidsParticularGrewGrew UpObsessedParanormalFilesUfoX FilesZenith Author:Alex Hirsch
“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