Ascent Quote by Joni Mitchell

Part of my success was rooted in psychology.

— Ricky Steamboat

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

— Helen Garner

I had reached at that point of my life, where I am transforming & preparing myself. So that when I rise I should remember…

— Ambivert

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way…

— Assata Shakur

Looking at myself retrospectively, how I survived, how I was reactionary as my surroundings were ever changing and I didn't have time to make…

— Julia Fox

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

— Anne Truitt

Growing up I was able to be exposed to different things which creates who I am today.

— Quincy Brown

All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I…

— Burgess Meredith

My upbringing gave me a strong will, a mental aggressiveness in what I wanted to achieve.

— Paul Tergat

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would seize control as if by…

— Lionel Shriver

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

— Viggo Mortensen

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

— Keisha Castle-Hughes