#growing

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up. ↗

— Craig Charles

#bit #black #black family #estate #families

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#growing up #i #missionary #school #up

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. ↗

— William Congreve

#danger #dull #find #great #growing

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#business #capital #growing #lost #market

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#afterwards #becoming #decided #drama #drama school

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! ↗

— Rick Danko

#canada #cleaning #could #erie #ever

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#american #american dream #bureaucratic #buy #congressman

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#being famous #clear #everyone #famous #good

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#ahead #because #being #bottom #death