“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!” YearsProblemBigsKidsNightParentMorningGrowing UpGrowingCookingCafesDays Of The YearMenagerie Author:Anthony Minghella
“Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.” SaidChristianStarsGrowthMorningSunGraceGrowingMastersEsteemRisingProportionDrsFaded Author:Dwight L. Moody
“How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.” WorldMayDreamLightLinesDarkMorningGrowingPaintCloudsGladStreamsSilverThunderGlowingLiliesNoonHailBoyhoodRosyGirlhoodAzure Author:Cecil Frances Alexander
“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.” ThinkingKnowsWorldLittlesBodyAmericaNightPresidentSleepMorningGrowingJohnsonFree World Book:This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood Source: This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
“I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'” FeelsShowsActionCultureStarsSpaceMorningGrowing UpGrowingGiantsSaturdayCartoon80sGeekBlazersSaturday Morning Author:Ernest Cline
“We really didn't have the option of being couch potatoes when I was growing up. There were only three television channels and the only kid's programming was on Saturday morning. We always played outside until we could hear Mom calling us (not by cell phone but with her hands cupped around her mouth) that it was dinner time.” HandsKidsThreeMorningGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionMomCallingMouthsPhonesDinnerCellsProgrammingSaturdayPotatoesCouchesCell PhoneSaturday MorningDinner Time Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you're like, "I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?" But at night you're like, "La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I've seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron's always in trouble."” ThinkingFunnyPainNightSleepWatchesMorningComedyGrowingTroubleWake UpHeyEpisodesCameronGrowing PainsKirk Author:Jim Gaffigan
“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
“I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.” WritingYearsLittlesRememberSportsWaitingMorningSunGrowing UpGrowingDadPagesSpringBaseballMy DadNewspapersCraftsPostsArticlesAfternoonBackyardsColoradoDenverPlaying Baseball Author:Pat Forde
“I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.” YearsKindWantedMorningGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkTwentiesRadioAccidentsComedianChicagoHometownCarolsBuffaloStand Up ComedianRochester Author:Stephanie Miller
“With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.” StillsFacesMotherThreeHouseBehindsBoysMorningGrowing UpGrowingEarsCleanTeethRoutineWashingBrushingMorning Routines Author:Cam Newton
“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.” ImportantMorningGrowing UpGrowingNewsSingingRadioHearingDancerCoastTap DancersDurban Author:Roselee Goldberg
“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