Sentences with phrase «as a young boy growing»

As a young boy I grew up with tales of Alex James.

Director David Fincher (Panic Room, Fight Club, Se7en) says that the crimes of the Zodiac, which still remain unsolved, have enthralled him for years, even as a young boy growing up in the Bay Area.

As a young boy growing up in Argentina, Jorge Bendersky never dreamt of being a firefighter, a baseball player, or a superhero.

As a young boy growing up in 1970s Poland, Sasnal often read collected volumes of Andersen's stories published in Polish.

As a young boy growing up in Unity, Sask., Tom Gauley knew exactly what direction he wanted his life to take: «I only had one thought in my mind — that I wanted to be a lawyer.»

As a young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, 12 - year - old Cassius Marcellus Clay dreamed of someday becoming the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

Not exact matches

Dizzy and Paul Dean used to pull on young Paul's fingers when he was growing up, but as good as that boy's genes were his fingers would not stretch enough.

I grew up in Highbury, ny father took was an avid fan who took me as a young boy to their games and talked everyday about them.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

«I grew up in England, I went to school as a young boy and I grew up at a time in England when homosexuality was banned there, it was illegal.

I grew up in England; I went to school as a young boy in England and I grew up at a time in England when homosexuality was banned there, it was illegal and I lived in the period when British politicians thought it was anathema to think about changing the law and suddenly the activities of individuals, of groups, a certain awareness, a certain development grew and grew and grew stronger and it forced a change in law.

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

He had made agriculture his bailiwick under Stalin, and he had grown up in similar circumstances, tending sheep as a young boy in the tiny farming community of Kalinovka, near Kursk.

There's a concern that this issue is growing among the young male segment, with as many as 43 % of «normal - weight» adolescent and college - age boys believing themselves to be underweight and reporting a desire to increase muscle mass through weight training.

It's natural biology that a younger man will be producing more testosterone as they develop as it's essentially testosterone that helps us grow and develop from boys, teenagers and then men.

She's someone who probably wanted to be a boy as a young girl but grew out of it to loving her female body and how it feels to connect to a woman as a woman.

The girl is Nasia (Candace Evanofski), already rabidly boy - crazy though barely a teen, and she is prone to deep rumination about not just the cute young guys in her working - class North Carolina town but about everyone else as well: «The grown - ups in my town, they were never kids like me and my friends.»

Tilly, formerly known as Myrtle Dunnage, finds time rapidly to connect with the likes of a cross-dressing police sergeant (Hugo Weaving), who is not entirely unhappy at seeing her return, and Teddy McSwiney (Liam Hemsworth), one of the young lads in a daredevil gang of soccer - playing boys has grown up into a handsome man who takes an immediate interest in Tilly, seeing her in a smashing outfit — which she changes daily, it seems, as though she'd been watching Hillary Clinton.

And while we're still waiting for the first trailer to show up, some new photos form the coming - of - age epic have arrived, showing off young Ellar Coltrane as he grows up from a young boy to a teenager.

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) plays Cooper, a former NASA pilot who know farms corn and does his best to raise two kids: an older boy, Tom — who will be played as an adult by Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone)-- and a younger girl, Murphy (or Murph) who will grow up first to be (disappointingly), the lightweight Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and then (less disappointingly) Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream).

Strongly encouraging him to do just this is another new character, an idealistic young detective (the superb Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who grew up in a boys home himself and relates to Wayne as one orphan talking to another.

20th Century Women Rated R for sexual material, language, some nudity and brief drug use Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % In this thoughtful and touching dramedy, Annette Bening stars as a single mother to a young boy in the late 70's who tries to raise him right, fully aware that he is growing up with an over-abundance of women in his life.

Consider the opening sequence, in which Joey is born, as young farm boy Albert watches with growing excitement.

A timid young boy and a curious elephant face challenges and help each other as they grow into adulthood in a small village near a game...

Since he began keeping them as a lonely thirteen - year - old boy and wrote his last installment decades later, his voice and style grow from a young David Copperfield type to a disillusioned man but never lose their tone of bewilderment.

Labeled by some as the «Libyan Kite Runner», In The Country of Men does share some similarities with Khaled Hosseini's runaway bestseller in that both are about young boys growing up in countries experiencing political implosion, with the result that their boy - sized mistakes take on adult - sized consequences; but Matar's prose is leaner than Hosseini's, and his themes share more with Ian McEwan's Atonement than with The Kite Runner.

«One gentleman was sharing how he always had animals growing up as a boy, and this really took him back to his childhood and made him feel young again,» Javier says.

Born and raised in Louisville Kentucky, where he still resides today, Jeremy was fascinated with drawing as a young boy but as he grew older his interests shifted and he no longer pursued art.

David Mach RA grew up with these comics as a young boy in Scotland and they're a major source material for his practice.

The young faces of boys who grew up to be some of the world's worst dictators have gone on public display at the Saatchi gallery in west London as part of an exhibition devoted to paper.

As a young boy and growing up into my teens and beyond I would often be woken early in the morning hearing the men going off to work on their early shift they would tramp along the street, coughing and quietly talking to each other.

Vanity Fair — Saroo's Google - Earth Quest: How an Orphaned Boy Found His Way Home as Grown Man — David Kushner — Stranger than fiction is this story of how a young man in Australia, lost at the age of 5 in Calcutta, somehow found «his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.»

Our boys entered Douglas as little kids and graduated as young adults, with the education, maturity, social skills and self - confidence to fly like eagles and have grown to be successful, independent and productive citizens.

She appeared intermittently as a lead singer with the classic Las Vegas revue over the next 10 years while she and Jim raised a family of two young boys, now grown.

As a young boy, he would help out on his family's farm, growing and harvesting tobacco, corn, strawberries, and other so - called «truck crops» that paid the bills.

Once a young boy growing up in Pimville, Soweto, now the Director of Black Real Estate, Thato «TT» Mbha is fast making a name for himself as the go - to real estate practitioner for high net worth celebrities in South Africa.

My kids are grown up now, but when they were young (girl and boy) I always tried to make what was ever important to them as imporant to me so they seemed to feel that security that they could tell me anything.