- Nov 07, 2020
Growing Up Quotes
Childhood memories, changed towns, and questions of identity.
These quotes span the specific texture of growing up - undecided ambitions, hometowns that later feel transformed, and early sporting or family memories that stick for life. Related reflections continue in Experience.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a Tina Turner fan growing up.
- Fair Share
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always very small, so growing up, I was always getting kicked around. It was something I kind of grew up with.
- Growing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of musicals growing up.
- Michigan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.
- Feudal
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.
- Direct Contact
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020