Pastoral Resources

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.