“Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.” WorldWarEndsFoundGrowing UpGrowingColdPeriodsNuclearHopefulHolocaustCold War Author:George Clooney
“Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.” ShowsQualityGrowing UpGrowingTvsPeriodsThis LifeTitlesAdolescenceTv ShowsHappy DayTruly Happy Author:Virgil Miller Newton
“All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.” MadeHardFatherGrowing UpGrowingTaughtPeriodsMarriedHarveyMommaDressersMy Momma Author:Steve Harvey
“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.” ShowsFilmCultureNumbersGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionHugePeriodsTwentiesMythologyBunchTelevision ShowsRoaringUnderworldRoaring Twenties Author:Martin Scorsese
“Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.” PeopleWantCertainGrowsGrowing UpPeriodsEvolveNecksNooses Author:Billy Corgan
“You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.” MatterGrowsCommunityLeaderGrowing UpInfluenceGrewPeriodsGrew UpLoyaltyNeighborhood Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.” WorldWayFirstsHumansWellsMeanWarAgeStrongLossGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsPeriodsElementsAreasOptimismRegardCrisisPatternsWell BeingWar Of The WorldsWorld War IScratchesAdvancingDisillusionFirst World WarLoss Of Faith Author:George Pattison
“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.” BodySchoolConsciousnessGrowing UpGrowingTaughtParticularPeriodsFemaleCatholicSensitiveVisibleMissionarySiteAsiaNunRepressedFemale BodyTime Periods Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim