I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.
I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.
If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind of my favorite bands.
It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.
Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.
