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.
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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.
When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I becam...
A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
Just growing up, my dad always told me the most important point of the game is the extra point. A lot of people take that play off. It's an opportunity to make something happen, and I'm going to make...
I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia
The uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.
A self-made man - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sp...
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so...
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.
Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.
Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hop...
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...
Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan? he asked.Not if I can avoid it, no.
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