“I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.” IfsThinkingWorldWayWould BeAgeProgressFailingModernGrewGrew UpTunesBad ThingsSouthernSensibilityAnnoyedTexan Author:John Graves
“The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.” WorldMayIdeasChristianLeftBehindsModernGrewIntellectualUnderstoodEuropeAccidentsAnalysisModern Science Author:Freeman Dyson
“I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.” IfsWayFeelsPlayCertainStuffEnjoyNaturalHeardModernRocksMissingGrewGrew UpHip HopRadioStuckWho I AmHipsHopsFormatMissing OutSynthesizers Author:Gary Clark, Jr.
“The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism.” TwoPartyKnownModernSpecialExampleMovementGrewWestIraqExtremesNationalismAdmirationRegimesSocialistSaddamHusseinTotalitarianismFascistsEmulateMoustacheSocialist PartyGeorgians Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I grew up on a farm with only two TV channels. I didn't grow up around much culture. When I got excited about painting, I never really got further than what would have been in a modern art history textbook.” Has BeensArtTwoCultureGrowsGrowing UpModernPaintingTvsGrewGrew UpExcitedFarmsTextbooksArt HistoryModern ArtHistory Textbooks Author:Neil Farber
“The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.” MindFoundModernCenturyGrewHabitEnlightenmentRootsInstitutionsWestRomeJerusalemAthensHabits Of Mind Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
“I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on.” ThinkingI CanReasonNamesStuffDifficultQualityModernListeningGrewGrew UpComposerListening To MusicQuality Time Author:A. R. Rahman
“It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that.” PeopleThinkingPayModernCarGrewClothesGrew UpValentineTributeModern Day Author:Todd Farmer
“By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.” BelieveTodayCitiesEnvironmentModernConditionsGrewHealthySafePaperGrew UpCleanProsperitySmellTolerateContinuingSteelMillsModern SocietyAmerican CitiesHealthy Environment Author:Denis Hayes
“I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where as soon as the listener tunes in, they say "That's CoJo, that's Cody right there." That being said, it is a little different. There's Americana, there's Bluegrass, there's some rock, there's some really George Jones-style stuff on it, slow-style Ray Price country elements, there's some modern country, a little of this and a little of that. We tried to push a lot for show versatility, because I grew up with a lot of versatility in my music.” FeelsLittlesSaidDifferentCountryShowsWantedSongStuffRecordsModernRocksStyleGrewElementsGrew UpGenreTunesRaysListenersBluegrassVersatilityAmericanaGeorge Jones Author:Cody Johnson