Sentences with phrase «grew up»

According to a press release, Marriott partnered with high - end nursery decorators Dragons of Walton Street, said to have a historical relationship with the royal family (Princes William and Harry and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie all grew up in Dragons - decorated nurseries) in creating the regal space.

I grew up pretty affluent — frankly — spending summers touring with rock bands in Europe and in Asia with my family.

«The internet opened the information flow up, and that's where the millennials grew up,» Yonston said.

Ho, 40, is the scion of Hong Kong's first family of gambling but grew up in Canada, attended the University of Toronto and worked in investment banking before taking over the family business, Melco Group.

Ben Chestnut, meanwhile, grew up watching his mother and sister run a beauty salon out of the family's kitchen — and learned never to spend more than the cash he had on hand.

Twice co-founders Noah Ready - Campbell, 26, and Calvin Young, 27, grew up buying and selling secondhand stuff.

I grew up in Somerset, England.

As an early investor in E-Trade, Yahoo and China's Alibaba Group, and a bold risk - taker who recently bought 70 % of Sprint Nextel for $ 20 billion, you would never guess how Son grew up.

I grew up living in a variety of different countries.

Lubna grew up in cosmopolitan Beirut, the youngest of four siblings, three of them girls.

«Every Akron kid grew up seeing the Wingfoot in the sky on the blimp and feeling pride in our community,» said LeBron James in a statement.

I grew up attending all - black, Baptist churches.

Anderson grew up poor, but set off alone to Copenhagen at 14 when a fortuneteller told him that although he would suffer early on, eventually he would become famous.

Born and raised in California to a Japanese mother and a Polish - American father, Kumai grew up in a mixed culture home — celebrating Japanese traditions and cuisine from a young age, and honing a cosmopolitan perspective that continues to inspire her work today.

Page, who grew up in Michigan, played saxophone and studied music composition while growing up.

Grado SR60i If you grew up in the»70s and you wanted to listen to The Dark Side of the Moon in the privacy of your room without your mom asking you to turn it down, your headphones might have looked something like the SR60i.

He cited the Ann Arbor precinct where he grew up as an example.

I grew up in Paris.

«We grew up with him, we owe it to the Beatles and Paul is a genius!»

She grew up in the kitchen with her mother - the best baker she knows.

I may not be part of the after - 11P scene anymore, but I grew up in Manhattan, and I remember and respect it well.

In earlier days, kids grew up with machines like the Commodore 64, a box that required you to learn to code if you wanted to do much with it.

Fink, who earned US$ 23.6 million last year, grew up middle - class in Los Angeles.

Studies show that kids who grew up with work of their own exhibit improved confidence and time management skills.

My mom was Italian, and she had been a little hippie vegan at a time when no one was vegan, so I grew up drinking almond milk and rice milk and eating my mom's homemade cashew cream sauce.

This wealth of educational material is an incredible resource, but it's also quite a different way to learn than the traditional classroom instruction many of us grew up with.

Going through what I did in 2013,» 14,»15 and even» 16... I grew up a lot.

I'm the daughter of a psychiatrist and grew up on Manhattan's Central Park West; he's the son of a postal worker and grew up in decidedly blue - collar Middletown, New York.

«The culture of that organization, from a marketing perspective, grew up around that DNA,» said Philp.

[For] one, the adversity I grew up with being a failed student, the empathy and soft skills it created, you have to adapt and learn how to play with others.

Putin's vision of Russia's future is deeply rooted in the Russia he grew up in — but his economy isn't up a global leader now any more than it was then.

Most great leaders grew up with adversity, so they learned at an early age that complaining gets them nowhere.

At one point in the CNN debate, the two candidates actually debated who grew up poorer after a question about raising the minimum wage.

«I think this house holds collected memories of a whole generation of people who grew up watching Harry Potter.»

He grew up in Britain, and when he went to school, university was free.

Dalya Gershtein was six years old when she saw Fantasia and decided that, when she grew up, she was going to be an animator for Disney.

Ross LeBlanc — who grew up watching her mother stay up late to bake cake for patrons of her small - town Ontario fabric store — knows when a customer feels taken care of, that customer comes back, and no expansion of the brand would be successful without setting exceptional service standards.

Or we could look at Oprah who grew up in poverty and was thrown every obstacle imaginable as an African - American woman.

Before the game, Thomas sat with Celtics guard Avery Bradley, who grew up near Thomas and is a close friend, and cried on the sideline.

«Essentially, it doesn't matter what region or decade you grew up, at some point you probably acquired an email address and you can use it to contact any other email address out there.»

Related: Why Bitcoin's Future Is Bright With the security arm of Xapo well - established and thriving «as the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world,» Casares claims, his next quest is to bring bitcoin to remote, underserved communities throughout the world, places similar to where he grew up, where access to money makes «the difference between having clothes for winter or not,» between eating and going hungry.

Maurides grew up in Glenview, Illinois, a town just outside Chicago.

While you might guess that I grew up to be an architect, in a sense, you'd be right, although I didn't design enormous structures made of concrete but tiny structures made of silicon.

Charlie grew up with plenty of money.

Originally from Bolivia, she grew up in Buenos Aires and had lived in Barcelona for more than ten years, El País said.

I grew up one of six children with working class parents in the Deep South.

Admittedly, this kind of candor can be awkward for those of us who grew up not talking about money — but the reality is that today's skilled workers feel justified in seeking out compensation information.

It's understandable, given that generation X prepared the cultural buffet that millennials grew up on.

In 2010, Fadell, who grew up in Michigan, founded Nest, a consumer - tech company that in October launched its first product — the world's first «learning thermostat» — that can figure out the temperature you prefer.

The last generation to declare itself with art instead of technology grew up tough and alienated.