Sentences with phrase «after a childhood spent»

I've been a non-believer for several years now after a childhood spent in fundamentalist Christianity.

I have so much joy & peace in my life, today, after a childhood spent in orphanages [England & Australia].

After a childhood spent without a father and with little means, Nicholas DiNapoli devoted his adult years to scrimping to pay for college for his sons, supporting their careers and later meeting his grandchildren for regular breakfasts, Thomas DiNapoli said.

After a childhood spent sipping tree sap underground, some species emerge every 13 years, others every 17 years, rarely overlapping.

Katy Waldman rereads A Wrinkle in Time after a childhood spent enthralled by Madeleine L'Engle.

Stavros Mavrakis» three adult daughters want little to do with him after a childhood spent under his abrasive thumb — but now that he's dying, they're reluctantly circling the wagons.

After a childhood spent in the foster - care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings.

Born in 1922 and after a childhood spent in the region of Saint - Etienne in contact with the textile tradition, she moved to Paris immediately after the war, became friends with artists gravitating around the gallery Denise René.

After a childhood spent in England, the United States, Jamaica and Bermuda, he studied Art History at Harvard University.

Not exact matches

After spending a childhood in the factory with an artistic mother, Rasmussen expanded the company into art as his «way to combine those two very different sensibilities.»

Jason was born in Madrid and, after a brief stintin the States, spent most of his childhood back in Spain, on the southern Atlantic coast near Cadiz.

After early childhood where he was exposed but investigations - and you know the GOP spent plenty on them - revealed he never followed Islam, he was raised by his mother's parents in Hawaii, Christian bankers.

Why do so many Christians, after spending their early lives in the Church receiving proper teaching, leave their childhood faith behind?

He had spent most of his childhood and his teen years as the man of the house, after his father left the family when he was six.

Tewelde claimed asylum in the UK after the 2008 World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh in order to avoid military conscription and he settled in Scotland after spending a traumatic childhood in Africa.

Imagine Childhood: After completing my degree in art, I spent some time as a freelance children's furniture designer / fabricator which eventually led me to the Field Museum of Natural History.

After experiencing severe rejection, bullying and a broken childhood; Mimika spent years chasing accolades and addicted to approval, in the pursuit of finding her worth, validation and confidence.

The eldest son of a bricklayer, Donoghue spent several years of his Arlington, Massachusetts, childhood in a wheelchair after developing a painful degenerative bone disease that ravaged his upper leg bones where they form the hip joint.

After a very extended childhood spent dividing in a culture dish, even stem cells tend to grow up and assume adult roles as workaday nerve, muscle, or blood cells, never to return to their youthful state.

After my parents got divorced, I spent much of childhood flying by myself between states, meaning that time spent in airports and in flight was typically accompanied by the distress of leaving one parent and the general insecurity of a life spent in a state of between.

Jelbert's childhood was spent walking the cows in for milking after school, sorting through potatoes on the harvester, and driving the tractor while Jelbert's parents and grandparents cut cauliflower.

On the other hand, that typical Kalenjin child has spent all of his childhood tinkering with that engine, adding turbocharger after air filter, and updating all of the tiny «unsexy» pieces like piston rings and valve springs.

Do Son was named after a resort on the coast of Vietnam where Yves Coueslant spent his childhood in Haiphong.

His family owned a small bookstore throughout his early childhood, and he would spend weekends flipping through book after book, always sure to read the ones that looked the most interesting.

Spending his childhood on the road with his family, he earned the nickname Buster at the age of six months; as legend has it, after the young Keaton fell down a flight of steps at a theater, a magician on the bill, Harry Houdini, said to the lad's father, «What a buster your kid took!»

After spending his childhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Schaffner studied pre-law at Franklin and Marshall College, then moved on to Columbia University's law school.

Chalk one up for self - determination: The lovely Julianne Nicholson spent much of her childhood in a cabin in rural Massachusetts that lacked water and electricity — her mother relocated there after her parents divorced — before finding the spunk to move...

After spending his childhood in Lebanon, Gabriel Yared attended the composition classes of Henri Dutilleux in Paris.

After graduating from Vanderbilt University with a degree in early childhood education and child studies, Ms. Washburn spent two years working as an assistant teacher in Connecticut.

From the time I was born, I, my sister, and my brother, spent every afternoon of our childhood and teen years in my mother's after - school tutoring program in Chicago.

Go Set a Watchman follows an adult Scout Finch who travels from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus Finch, 20 years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird.According to the publisher, Scout «is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father's attitude toward society and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood.»

After spending my childhood in various Mid-Atlantic states, I have lived my adult life in an area of New England that is filled with beauty but lacking in diversity.

After spending his childhood on a farm — where he vowed never to plant or dig ever again — Allen went on to play professional basketball in Europe.

The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession.

From USA Today Best Selling Author Lisa Mondello - A new contemporary western romance series DAKOTA HEARTSShe needed to risk the truth to get a second chance... Poppy Erickson had spent the year wondering how all their lives might have been different after hearing the deathbed confession of her childhood friend.

His family owned a small bookstore throughout his early childhood, and he would spend weekends flipping through book after book, always sure to read the ones that looked the most interesting.

After a lovely childhood in Upstate New York and four years spent living my big city dreams in Brooklyn, I finally succumbed to my vagabond fantasies and bought a one way ticket out the country.

If, for example, you've spent most of your childhood honing your technical chops on the bass guitar and decide you want to start gigging, then your time is best spent going after those opportunities.

Born on the subtropical island of Yoron, near Okinawa, Japan, Ikeda spent his childhood exploring the island and the coral reefs surrounding it; after high school he left his small island world to explore Japan and India.

His passionate defense of human rights and freedom of speech is deeply tied to his own personal experience, after spending his early childhood in a labor camp with his family, and later on being targeted for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Kazimir Malevich spent his childhood living in villages across Ukraine, where he developed a love of peasant art and embroidery.

A year after his birth, the Katz household relocated to St. Albans, Queens, where Alex spent most of his childhood.

Nevelson's fondness for wood stemmed from a childhood spent in her father's lumberyard in Maine, where she and her family relocated after escaping persecution of Jews in Russia.

After spending his childhood in Spokane, Washington, and Bow Island in southern Alberta, Canada, young painter visited New York in 1925 and briefly studied at the Art Students League.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Malevich spent his childhood living in rural villages across Ukraine where he found a love of peasant art and embroidery.

Having returned to Trinidad in 2000, after spending part of his childhood there, he said his paintings had become «more decorative» and «more open».

After a childhood in Brooklyn, he spent many years in and around Manhattan and Washington DC.

Shortly after his birth, the Gilliams moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where the artist spent his childhood.

Mark Bradford is native to Los Angeles and was born in the southern parts of the city, but spent a large chunk of his childhood in Santa Monica after his family moved here when he was 11 years old.

Reacquainted with Cornwall, Heron spent each summer there until it became his permanent home in 1956 after his purchase and refurbishment of Eagles Nest the year before from Mark Arnold - Forster, a house Heron had lived in during his childhood.