Growing up as a kid, I played for Wallsend Boys Club, a famous boys club. I had such a good childhood and upbringing there.
I didn't have a good childhood growing up.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
Growing up, I tried to be involved in school a lot, and I had good grades. I was an active kid, and I loved being social.
If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it's a cookie jar - think Michael Jordan's last shot as a Bull.
'Goosebumps,' actually, was a very big part of my childhood, growing up, and it inspired me to get into horror and all that good stuff.
When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.
When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
You see all the greats, people who were idols of mine growing up. You see those guys on the cover of video games.
My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
Growing old is not growing up.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - also Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. And bands like Vampire Weekend.
