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.
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
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'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.
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.
In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
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.
Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.
Maj. John Howard: [charging the Orne River Bridge] Up the Ox and Bucks! Up the Ox and Bucks!
Cowboy: Hey, pretty girl, time to wake up.
Teddy: You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth.
[Storm comes back up through the elevator] Toad: Don't you people ever die?
