Pastoral Resources

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.