“Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest...” WayFactsRomanceOrderFoundInterestRaceProgressAchieveGrewHappeningsMovedIrrationalClichePuppetsBlundersVolitionDenouement Author:James Branch Cabell
“Amanda [Bynes] and I are the same age so I grew up watching her and really looking up to her and for me, to see this path that's happening and to watch it, is kind of really affecting me in ways that I didn't think it would. It's weird to be in a situation where you can't help. I obviously don't know her at all but I want to bring her back and I want to make her happy and healthy for some reason and she's not there and we can't do anything to help so it kind of sucks. All we're doing is hurting it.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantKindReasonHelpingAgeHurtSituationWatchesPathGrewHealthyGrew UpHappeningsAmanda Author:Chrissy Teigen
“I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?” PeopleFeelsBookHappensAmericaReadingGrewKingsGrew UpHappeningsTownsNostalgiaWorldlySmall TownDemonic Author:Alexander Koch
“I grew up with him [Michael Jackson] and I've spent a lot of time at Neverland and nothing has ever happened with me in any way. You have to look at both sides. I do think it is very convenient that his album came out and all this stuff is happening. I definitely do think that's very convenient... It really hurts me to see that his whole life is ruined.” ThinkingWayLooksWholeLife IsStuffSidesHurtHappenedGrewGrew UpHappeningsAlbumsWhole LifeBoth SidesRuinedConvenientHurt MeNeverlandIt Really Hurts Author:Nicole Richie
“When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.” DifferentPlayYoungOpportunityParentActingClassReadyGrewLessonsGrew UpSingingHappeningsActressesSingersDifferent Things Author:Naturi Naughton
“I grew up watching a lot of Italian and French movies, so I want to have that '70s look, in my dream movie. I want that thing that's not so much happening now, that's existentialist.” WantLooksDreamGrewGrew UpHappeningsItalianExistentialistFrench Movies Author:Ayelet Zurer
“The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.” PeopleMenWorldHumansLooksCountryFactsEyeFacesHuman BeingsInterestingSawsWillingGrewDevelopmentHappeningsIdealsDignityMarkLegacyScopeWorking ManRacial Equality Author:Hal Holbrook
“I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.” CountryDealsRecordsListeningGrewGrew UpHappeningsIntroductionNashville Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised.” KnowsMenWayStillsHappensGrewGrew UpHappeningsVictimRaisedNeighborhood Author:Ice Cube
“As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.” WorldFeelsDoeUsedHouseTalkingGrewGrew UpHappenings Author:Mike Mills
“So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.” PeopleLooksRealizingChallengesEnvironmentGrewGoodnessGrew UpHappeningsOptimismCoreAlways HappyHappy ThingsOptimism And Hope Author:Sonia Sotomayor