Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Flint is a big, industrial city. But when I was growing up, they had the recession, lead in the water, and all… — Kyle Kuzma Copy Share Image
Moving on is not about never looking back. It's about taking a glance at yesterday and noticing how much you've grown since… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I think growing up it was never an issue for me to think about working out or having a healthy lifestyle because… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
“That night, Gregory dreamt of his mother. It was a dream that he'd have carried to his therapist like a raw, precious… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my… — Howard Graham Buffett Copy Share Image
And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
I'm not a great hunter. But I have fired guns in the past, when I was growing up. But it was part… — Scott Wilson Copy Share Image
As far as drummers are concerned, when I was a child growing up I was really attracted to artists like Gene Kupra… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was… — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent,… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
“Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and… — CJ Fly Copy Share Image
I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I… — Rod Wave Copy Share Image
“The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals.… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
I really loved Andy Kaufman growing up, like every comedy person does. I like when sometimes the audience isn't quite sure what's… — Mike O'Brien Copy Share Image
The people-pleasing and performing is 100% ingrained in me, partly because I was a little brown girl growing up in a very… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I was raised by mum who's white and she raised me amazingly, but I was never in touch with my black side… — Liz Cambage Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
We'd had books in my house growing up, but we had never had anything like lectures. I had never written an essay… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
