“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.” IfsFirstsBigsRememberGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHeardSubjectsJokesJersey Author:Oscar Nunez
“I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.” FeelsFirstsLongCountryBrainGrowingHappenedProjectsLong TimeFirst TimeEducationalEducatedImproving1960sDrainsBrain Drain Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.” MenMadeIdeasWantedSchoolFallInterestingGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHigh SchoolSickFalling In LoveRangeHatedSweetheartInteresting Man Author:Charlotte Arnold
“I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.” PeopleThinkingI CanCountryPoliticalSocialGrowing UpGrowingHappenedGrewGrew UpConscienceRaisedOur CountryPolitical History Author:George Clooney
“It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.” IfsGrowing UpGrowingHappenedFashionNeighborArmani Book:Outliers: The Story of Success Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."” WorldHeartLittlesArtistGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHeardMy HeartEnglandSpeakersAnother WorldChuckBerriesHowlin WolfMiddlesbrough Author:Paul Rodgers
“Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.” Has BeensDesireLostGrowingHappenedHavensMellow Author:Brett Dennen
“My dad was a breeder. Most of his work happened in little test plots and didn't require much labor. He tried growing them for a while, and realized that farming is hard. It's just brutally hard. We didn't have the interest or fortitude to farm.” LittlesHardInterestGrowingHappenedDadLaborTestsMy DadPlotFarmsFarmingFortitudeBreeders Author:Sanjay Rawal
“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
“Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.” WayWantWellsChildrenI CanSpeakFeltGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingHappenedPossibilityTerribleDifficultyMy Children Author:Lukas Moodysson
“Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.” PeopleShowsCareersGrowing UpGrowingHappenedWorstWorst Things Author:Miley Cyrus
“I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.” PeopleYearsImportantAgeMemoriesGrowing UpFiveGrowingHappenedTenTangible Author:Jello Biafra
“God, she's growing up, and I don't know when it happened, man. I used to buy her Minnie Mouse panties and little Winnie the Pooh underwear. I was helping my wife fold cloths. I picked up a pair of skimpy underwear. I looked at my wife and said: "When you gonna wear these for me?" She goes, "I can't. They're your daughter's." "Aaaaaaahhhhhh! No, No, No!" There was nothing to them! The how-to-wash tag was the biggest piece of cloth on there.” KnowsMenLittlesSaidI CanHelpingUsedGrowing UpPiecesWifeGrowingHappenedDaughterMy WifePairsMiceFoldsUnderwearTagYour DaughterPantiesMinnieMinnie Mouse Author:Bill Engvall
“When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.” IfsGrowing UpGrowingHappenedSeriousPhonesCellsPlanesRescueCell Phone Author:Leigh Newman
“With the business growing, work has become a little more detached from my life. But in the start, before I had a separate studio and a team, everything happened in my house and it was hard to separate the two.” LittlesTwoHardHouseGrowingHappenedTeamStudiosDetached Author:Garance Dore