“I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.” ThreeParentGrewMomDadGrew UpPercentRaisedMy DadMy MomNinety Author:Brian J. White
“The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.” GrewGrew UpPercentTownsBarsFiftyGradesWeekendBatsMitzvahBat Mitzvah Author:Vanessa Bayer
“I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.” PeopleMeanLanguageWonderfulGenerationsCommunicationGrewGrew UpPercentFourthDeafAccessibilityDeafnessLanguage And CommunicationImmediate Family Author:Shoshannah Stern
“Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.” TryingYearsKindWould BeUsedTelevisionGrewGrew UpPercentNineZoneAustraliaTwilightMumTwistsNine YearsHitchcockTwilight Zone Author:Jacki Weaver
“I grew up in a really musical house where all of my brothers and sisters could sing, but I couldn't sing. Not only could I not sing, I couldn't hear pitch. I was totally tone deaf - legitimately, one hundred percent tone deaf. Nevertheless, I loved music.” HouseBrotherGrewGrew UpPercentHundredMusicalToneMy BrotherNeverthelessBrothers And SistersDeaf Author:Dominic Balli
“In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.” PeopleMenDifferentMightRememberHouseHoursCollegeGrewWalkingGrew UpPercentTradeDollarsWarmEggsPigsUnemploymentBeggarGreat DepressionCollege EducationGrown Man Author:Jimmy Carter
“I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.” I CanCountryCan DoFiveGrewProudGrew UpPercentIncreaseCleverAdsEightyCountry Life Author:John Lydon
“Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.” WritingGrewGrew UpPercentAreasPopulationIndianNativeIronicNative AmericanSixtyUrbanReservationsAmerican WriterUrban AreasIronic Things Author:Sherman Alexie