“My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.” FeelsWholeWeekGrewGrew UpLet MeChecksSpineWhole FamilyProstheticsScoliosis Author:Logan Lerman
“Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.” YearsWellsWholeMotherClassChildhoodGrewGrew UpDancerBalletDance Class Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino
“A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.” PeopleThinkingWholeProcessCasesGrewGrew UpStudiosRecording Studio Author:Julian Lennon
“I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.” WorldLooksWholeReadingGrewTravelGrew UpSouthBottomMapsSouth AfricaEncyclopedia Author:Charlize Theron
“I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.” BookWholeBigsKidsGrewReaderGrew UpCrowdsComicComic BookBook Readers Author:Joe Manganiello
“In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.” WorldHeartWholeFictionFieldsBuildingGrewMy HeartGrew UpWhole WorldFantasticDragonsDungeonsDungeons And DragonsBuilding ThingsClose To My Heart Author:China Mieville
“I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.” PeopleWorldChildrenMadeI CanWholeTogetherSpiritMotherFatherSawsSeeingTreeGrewHolyShapesMountainHighestUnderstoodStandingAll ThingsSacredRoundsWideCirclesNativeNative AmericanShelterMother EarthDaylightFloweringNative AmericaNative American IndianStarlightNative American EarthNative American Indian InspirationalSacred ThingsFlowering Trees Author:Black Elk
“I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.” WorldKindWarWholeStoriesHeardMilitaryEmotionalGrewGrew UpEuropeHearingSavedWar Of The WorldsOfficersExposedWorld War IiWorld War IGrandparentVeteranNavyRetiredPacificMarine CorpsWhole FamilySubmarinesMilitary Family Author:David Ayer
“I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned up without the federal government needing to be involved. I think we would have been much better served from the start if people would have better understood the principles of private property.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensWholeGovernmentCitiesPrinciplesSunSkyGrewInvolvedGrew UpUnderstoodPropertyFederal GovernmentNoonPrivate PropertyPittsburgh Author:Ron Paul
“I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.” WholeParentActingClassGrewGrew UpCoachesWhole LifeActing ClassesBabysitter Author:Blake Lively