I was a handful growing up.
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not...
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adoles...
I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
I'm on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool.
You'll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you'll be able to speak out or keep you...
Sometimes or most of the time, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.
Love is growing up.
You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?
As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up....
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
I thought I had found my true vocation and happiness, but in a strange way, they were just like my stepmother because they didn't want me to grow up either. This is really important you understand, Vi...
That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.
I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.