“My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.” WorldArtMotherArtistFatherGrowing UpGrowingSeeingNormalSpendingAround The WorldOur TimeArt WorldExperiencing Things Author:Bran Ferren
“I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.” TwoNumbersGrowing UpGrowingHappenedLogicLuckNineConsolationNinetyNinety Nine Author:Janice Galloway
“I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.” ThinkingTwoDifferentKidsUniverseProcessDifficultGrowing UpGrowingAdultsTeenagerDifferent Universes Author:Alice Hoffman
“One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?” WorldShouldYearsChildrenAbleGrowsMillionsGrowing UpLike YouUniqueOur ChildrenHarm Author:Pablo Casals
“I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one.” WritingKindBookKidsReadingMy OwnGrowing UpGrowingSevenOutsiders Author:Ann Hood
“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 always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.” YearsEndsPlayAbleGrowing UpGrowingFansJuniorsAlabamaSophomoreJunior YearSophomore Year Author:Bo Jackson
“Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.” LittlesKidsGrowing UpGrowingSizeLittle Kid Author:Terrell Owens
“We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.” PeopleDifferentGrowing UpGrowingMisinformation Author:Beverly Daniel Tatum
“As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.” ThinkingChildrenProblemLyingArtistHouseGrowing UpRecordsGrowingPaintingProductsSolveFinishedVisibleAdmirationExposedDefiniteChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Robin G. Collingwood
“Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.” PeopleRealBigsCultureGrowing UpGrowingInstrumentsI RealizedHawaiiUkulele Author:Jake Shimabukuro
“In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.” ChildrenKidsGrowsLosesSituationGrowing UpInnocenceBaltimore Author:Sheldon Candis
“I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.” GrowsGrowing UpFolksAcresFolk MusicPorchCabinsPawsMulesBanjosPlowing Author:Ketch Secor
“Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.” PeopleWayImportantStoriesWantedChurchGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingShareSouthFolksNeighborhoodSouthernFascinatedFolkloreStory People Author:Charles Burnett
“When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.” PeoplePowerfulGrowing UpGrowingRocksDressesPunkPunk RockReally PowerfulUnassumingPowerful MusicTheatrics Author:Doug Martsch
“If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed.” IfsWorldGivingKindDoeKidsOpportunityGrowing UpGrowingFailingSetback Author:Paul Tough
“If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.” IfsMeanKidsNamesBlackWhiteGrowing UpGrowingPlayerCollegeTownsChestsKids Growing UpOur Town Author:Frank Deford
“I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.” ThinkingImportantStoriesShowsPainBlackWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTiesMainstreamGrowing PainsFamily TiesCosby Show Author:Lena Waithe
“Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.” ParentGrowing UpTakenGrowingTheatreFortunateLos AngelesUcla Author:Dori Berinstein
“I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.” IfsSometimesGrowsGrowing UpDemocracyMilitaryNormalTreatsMissionsMaturity Author:Guido Westerwelle
“I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.” GivingAbleWantedParentGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyMy Sister Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.” FormNamesGrowsGrowing UpGrowingWrittenInfluencePoliticianDrawsMadHeavyMagazinesVisualsSatireElephantsDonkey Author:Tom Tomorrow
“Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.” PeopleLooksSeemsYoungFatherMorningGrowing UpGrowingDrunkIdioticUncool Author:Volkmar Sigusch
“For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.” WorldWellsI CanTwoMatterTodayCultureEasyGrowing UpGrowingTaughtCitizensFortuneGermanyGood FortuneWorld CitizenTwo Cultures Author:Tarkan
“It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.” ShouldFactsKidsTodaySchoolGrowsGrowing UpFailingGood ThingsObviousBad ThingsObvious Things Author:Edwin Catmull
“The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.” KnowsWorldHappensActingGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkBrilliantCanadaLos AngelesPlaces In The World Author:Alison Pill
“I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.” ThinkingPersonsIdeasDreamFatherGrowsVisionGrowing UpGrewGrew UpBoundariesVisions And DreamsNew Vision Author:Hafez Nazeri
“Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.” RealHandsStuffInterestGrowing UpGrowingDadApproachMy DadWoodsDrawing Author:Eddie Martinez
“What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.” PeopleAgeUsedGrowsGrowing UpSignificant Author:Tom Anderson
“I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.” KnowsWantI CanFeltKnow HowGrowing UpSawsGrowingTelevisionFameTheaterAssumingExceptionalHalfwayMagnet Author:Brian d'Arcy James
“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.” PeopleTryingMeanSeemsJobsRealizingCommonGrowing UpGrowingDollarsCommon SensePretendingMusic BusinessNashvilleLater In LifeSemesterBusiness Family Author:Caitlin Rose
“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.” Growing UpGrowingPlayerDadBandInstrumentsMusicalMy DadBassLatinoBasementsMusical InstrumentsBass Players Author:Lindi Ortega
“You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.” LightWantedGrowsGrowing UpShadowShoulders Author:Thomas Steinbeck
“My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.” ChildrenMadeBookChoicesFallActorsGrowsGrowing UpHollywoodAvailableMemoirPretendingUnusualChild Actors Author:Lisa Jakub
“My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.” FilmGrowsDecisionGrowing UpHollywoodMemoirMy TimePretending Author:Lisa Jakub
“Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingRocksBandHigh SchoolPopsSingersBroadwayLegit Author:Stark Sands
“I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.” WantedGrowing UpGrowingSwimmer Author:Grace Gummer
“Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.” HardWantedFoundParentGrowing UpGrowingBrotherLuckyMusicianActressesDrivenMy BrotherMy SisterGreat Parents Author:Grace Gummer
“I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.” IfsKnowsHas BeensDifferentBigsKidsRolesGrowing UpGrowingFiguresModelsOkayLike MeRole ModelsPackages Author:Mia Tyler
“The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.” IfsKidsGrowing UpGrowingAngryErasThrownSpokesJailApartheidKids Growing Up Author:Malik Bendjelloul
“My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.” LongIdeasParentGrowing UpGrowingNo IdeaIslandsShieldsLong Island Author:Alexa Ray Joel
“To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.” WorldWholeGrowsGrowing UpThis WorldBrighter Author:Lee Bennett Hopkins
“Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.” PeopleMadeStillsSometimesFunGrowing UpGrowing Author:Molly Tarlov
“You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.” KnowsFirstsSchoolSpeakParentGrowing UpKnowingTeacherGrowingTeachingUnderstoodSpeak English Author:Emily Rios
“I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.” I CanRealityGrowing UpKnowingGrowingBubblesNot KnowingUnemploymentDilemmaKnowing What To Do Author:Jessie Cave
“I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.” BelieveSaidPastI BelieveParentGrowing UpGrowingSeeingMarriedI Believe InSoulmatePast Life Author:Nadia Bjorlin
“Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.” ActorsGrowsParentGrowing UpSweetVanilla Author:Nadia Bjorlin