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.
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....
In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough...
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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.
It's easy to grow old if you haven't grown up
You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?
Tell your children the most important things To Be when they grow up, is to be kind and compassionate, to be loving and grateful, and to be happy and at peace with who they are, no matter of what they...
I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
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...
How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fa...
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.
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.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.
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...
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
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.