Did your grandparents ever share any stories about growing up in the country?
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ED SMITH Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
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SASCHA RADETSKY I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.
SISSY SPACEK Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
NOAM CHOMSKY In those long months of listening to those horrible stories, dreadful stories, how did you get throu...
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SHANNON L. ALDER I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests an...
CARL LEWIS Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage....
ELIZABETH WARREN Every Sunday night, I interview men and women in the military so they can share their stories about ...
BOB CALVERT I did a lot of musicals growing up.
CHRIS WOOD I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea...
AL ROKER I'd say about 75 percent of the story is based on true stories from growing up, [but] not necessaril...
ZACH BRAFF Lewis wanted us to understand that the inner world is shaped by stories.
ALISTER E. MCGRATH The maintainer can look up all kinds of information about how to repair a system, document what they...
GISELE BENNETT I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the tim...
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DR. JAMES C. DOBSON It's about the power of stories. It's through our stories that we come to know each other and share ...
FAYANNE HAYES "Share the warmth of these holidays. Please take time to share some heart felt Christmas stories wit...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the...
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MARTIN ANDERSON I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did...
DAN AYKROYD Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, c...
MICHAEL MOORE My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories...
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LAURA HARRIER Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect ...
JAMES DOBSON I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
ALICE BARRETT It shows the powerful effects of growing up in this country. They have come from a place with a diff...
DON BOWEN Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They wer...
ELLA BAKER One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
BRIT MARLING I knew there weren't any others in Lewis County.
KANDACE OLNEY My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
CHRIS BOHJALIAN Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
IKE BARINHOLTZ Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share yo...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE There is simply no evidence to suggest that Jose Padilla has ever engaged in any violent actions tow...
MICHAEL CARUSO I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, n...
DAN ROSENSWEIG ...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to s...
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JOHN CONNOLLY Each country makes their own rules, is what I've been told. All my great grandparents are Dutch. A c...
DAVID AARDSMA People laugh about that old joke where country music songs are about getting your truck repossessed....
COWBOY TROY Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place o...
KEVIN ROLLINS Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are curre...
NEIL GAIMAN Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER Why did You give us so many stories about miracles? Why did You
send Your Son down from heaven?...
MATTHEW QUICK It's about forgiveness and growing up and finding yourself and finding your place in the world and i...
LARRY YANDO The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is u...
JIM ROHN They grew; they did not talk about growing.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but ...
JOEL COEN Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified.
HOLLY MARIE COMBS My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.
EVA CHEN There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
EDDIE IZZARD Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated fron...
ELIJAH KELLEY I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different ...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are t...
DAVE FILONI come together to share war stories.
DEBORAH NORVILLE Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.
KEEGAN BRADLEY The picture we have is really quite similar to that of a lot of polls that share a growing concern a...
DANIEL YANKELOVICH So, what did you take from school growing up,
J. LEWIS Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every ...
DAN PEARCE Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forti...
GEOFFREY RUSH You don't hear about it any more ? you don't hear the victims' stories any more.
CANDACE LIGHTNER Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love th...
ALAN PATON Have you a room that you could let?"
"Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to...
ALAN PATON I love this country. You can't lie about saying you don't love this country. This country is the bes...
DANIEL DIAZ For most immigrants, moving to the new country is an act of faith. Even if you've heard stories of s...
NICOLA YOON L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.
BRUCE MCCULLOCH (Lewis) did a real good job against their top scorer.
LESLI PRIEBE Once you have saturated the country and soaked up enormous quantities of market share, it gets hard ...
CHARLES FISHMAN the greatest single portfolio of songs ever written by any one person in the history of country musi...
HANK WILLIAMS When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country.
DAVE BLACK Don't waste your youth growing up.
PABLO PICASSO Time fly's when your growing up!
DEANNASPAFARD Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents go...
JOYCE MAYNARD When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
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ERIN MORGENSTERN Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
NATE CORDDRY If you care about your market share you will care about your message
SOTONYE ANGA Alan did a great job facing off. He was really controlling that.
BRIAN VOELKER My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grand...
BILLY CRYSTAL If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. ...
TIM ROTH I think one of the objectives of any professional organization is to find diamonds in the rough, wha...
JIM LARRANAGA They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.
MORENA BACCARIN Knowing Alan Shearer like I do, he will be happy to share that (the record) with the fans and send t...
GLENN ROEDER [Things only get more right-wing when Bacharach unveils] Where Did It Go? ... When I was a young boy...
BURT BACHARACH You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out i...
MAJEL BARRETT Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom
KENNETH MAHUKA Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the ga...
MANTI TE'O When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day...
ELAYNE BOOSLER Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many othe...
QUETZAL There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.
DUNCAN D. HUNTER Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveli...
AMY PURDY If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot di...
BUBBA SPARXXX I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
SIMONE BILES I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT It's tough waking up in the morning and reading derogatory stories about you.
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ALEX LEWIS We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've...
ALEX LEWIS They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits.
ALEX LEWIS Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f...
ALEX LEWIS What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...
C.S. LEWIS It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...
C.S. LEWIS Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st...
C.S. LEWIS Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as i...
C.S. LEWIS There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. LEWIS No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – wo...
C.S. LEWIS Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can u...
C.S. LEWIS I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
C.S. LEWIS Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C.S. LEWIS