I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.
As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.
When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.
Growing up, I was told I could be anything I wanted to be. There were no limitations restraining me just because I was a girl. Then I joined the military.
Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.
Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.
Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?
I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.
San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
I can create as many programs and mentorships and scholarships as I want, but it doesn't change the environment in which our youth are growing up in.
I had very big lips growing up, so my brother started to call me Scooter Fish because he decided a scooter fish has big lips.
Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.
