Pastoral Resources

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

I never listened to country music growing up.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.