“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.” Has BeensStoriesAbleWantedGrowing UpGrowingDependsAdultsAncestorStorytellerGreat Gifts Author:Leslie Marmon Silko
“I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.” PeopleIfsWantRealStoriesKidsGuyCan DoGrowing UpGrowingShareTypeObstaclesInsightHeyRelateThis GuyNurturingSeals Author:Howard E. Wasdin
“So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.” YearsLooksStoriesGrowsGrowing UpLimitsDrawsBiblicalInclination Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.” BookStoriesGrowing UpGrowingMy FavoriteWrinklesWrinkle In Time Author:Brit Marling
“When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?” EndsStoriesProblemHappensKidsGrowsRealizingGrowing UpImagineAdultsWeakExcitingThings HappenDisappointedCompellingMundaneExciting ThingsMugglesMundane Life Author:Paul Waldman
“Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.” KnowsStoriesKidsFilmStuffKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingSpecialEffectsDrawsCamerasBudgetsFrustrationMy SisterSpecial Effects Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.” ChildrenSoulStoriesCultureGrowsHealingGrowing UpProudTravelCreatingTraditionOur ChildrenAncestorSailBe ProudSailingVoyagesSpiritual HealingHawaiiansNew CulturesReconnectingNavigators Author:Nainoa Thompson
“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.” PeopleKnowsDifferentStatesStoriesPoorGrowing UpGrowingWestSouthernVirginiaGreat DepressionWest Virginia Author:James Green
“You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.” WayWritingWholeStoriesHouseGrowsRoomsGrowing UpGenerationsReadyFatsDozenMailGetting OldRefrigeratorsCranky Author:Orson Scott Card
“It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.” ThinkingNeedsBookStoriesArtistGrowsAudienceGrowing UpCoupleComicSophisticatedComic BookGangRivals Author:Todd McFarlane
“I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.” FeelsCharacterStoriesCoursesGrowsGrowing Up Author:Emmy Rossum
“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.” ShouldChildrenStoriesSocialGrowsMistakeGrowing UpGraceWonderfulCrazyHabitDearAllowingCommentSpouseUnimportantTuesdayWednesdayCorrectingInterruptingSocial Graces Author:Judith Martin
“My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.” ThinkingSaidStoriesBigsMightRememberFilmGuyGrowing UpGrowingCollegeDadMy DadNflHighlightsTelling StoriesBig GuysCollege Days Author:Andrew Luck
“[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell scary stories to your grandkids: "A long time ago when I was growing up, there used to be people who were white," and the kid says, "Really?" and you say, "Yeah, like the man who cuts our grass."' I've had that line forever and I love it.” PeopleMenLongDoneStoriesKidsUsedLinesWhiteForeverGrowing UpCuttingGrowingHe ManLong TimeJokesYeahMajorityScaryUsed To BeGrassLong Time AgoLatinoGrandkidsScary Stories Author:George Lopez