Growing up without a mother from the time she was three -- it wasn't a good thing for a child, even knowing the kind of mother Alice had been.

" Growing up in Ohio ", he would later remark, " was just planning to get out ".

Growing up in relative poverty in an otherwise affluent community, Robinson and his minority friends were excluded from many recreational opportunities.

Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s.

Growing up, she did not have many friends and stayed home a lot.

Growing up, she was known by the name Dagmar.

Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino Giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson's stories.

Growing up as a hostage in Constantinople, Theodoric received a privileged education, and succeeded his father as leader of the Pannonian Ostrogoths in 471 AD.

Growing up, he was a competitive runner and also batted. 492 for the Junior Intercounty Baseball League's Brantford CKCP Braves in the summer of 1980.

Growing up, his best friend was Merle Tuve, who would also go on to become a highly accomplished nuclear physicist.

Growing up in the Bronx, he got into occasional fights and was something of a troublemaker at school.

Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari.

Growing up an orphan, Perdita was independent, distrustful, and proud, but she is softened by love for Raymond, to whom she is fiercely loyal.

Growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager at high school.

" Growing up in London where she could not have a horse she was obsessed with them: all her early books are about girls who have ponies.

Growing up, Bridges shared a close relationship with his brother Beau, who acted as a surrogate father when their father was working.

Saturday Morning Fever: Growing up with Cartoon Culture.

Growing up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, Robert Yerkes wanted to leave the hard life of the rural farmer and become a physician.

Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because " it meant could get more involved in the games.

Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity.

Growing up the son of a wealthy merchant who was well connected with the major artists of the time, Hofmannsthal was raised in what Carl Schorske refers to as " the temple of art ".

* Growing up in East Prussia An oral history project, documenting the German history of East Prussia with memories and reports by contemporary witnesses

Growing up to 20 m tall, like T. vernicifluum it is used for lacquer production.

Growing up to 20 m tall, its sap produces an extremely durable lacquer.

Growing up in a " a rural working-class family ", Garner's ancestry had been connected to Alderley Edge since at least the 16th century, with Alan tracing his lineage back to the death of William Garner in 1592.

Growing up in the 1960s, Alsammarae received his primary and secondary education in Baghdad, Iraq.

Growing up as " and only child in a house without culture ," ( Bolland says that his " mother and father had no use for art, literature or music "), he embraced the late 1960s pop culture explosion of " pirate radio stations, music ( particularly Frank Zappa ...), drug taking, psychedelia, " peace and love ," " dropping out ," the underground scene, Oz Magazine ," and other aspects of hippy culture epitomised by underground comix such as Robert Crumb's Zap Comix.

Times. com, August 20, 2006: " It's been a long career for the polished Wilson, whose first albums appeared in the 1960s, and she faces that truth head-on in such numbers as ' These Golden Years ' and ' I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up '.

Growing up in New Zealand without television until the 1960s, Dale developed a love of theatre and amateur dramatics.

Growing up in the 1960s, Guice was fond of " the legendary stop-motion animator and filmmaker " Ray Harryhausen, whose influence can be seen in some of Guice's work, most notably the Humanoids project Olympus.

Growing out of the Somali people's rich storytelling tradition, the first few feature-length Somali films and cinematic festivals emerged in the early 1960s, immediately after independence.

Goodman is now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd ( 1960 ) and an activist on the pacifist Left in the 1960s and an inspiration to that era's student movement.

Growing tired of his work, he assembled a gang, left his employment, and moved to the Don region to become a river pirate.

Its opening song, " Growing Up Isn't Easy ", was sung by Bonnie Langford ; its music was composed by Charles Strouse and its lyrics were written by Don Black.

Growing up and going to school with both black and white friends, singing in doo-wop groups and playing sports, Avakian experienced up close and personal the prevailing segregation and racism in society and the ways it affected his black friends.

Growing up in Nova Roma, she had curly blonde hair, and wore a traditional white Roman toga.

Growing settlement pressures, in particular the discovery of gold in the surrounding mountains, as well as the interest of white settlers to form ranches in the region, caused the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to abruptly terminate the reservation in 1879.

Growing from a bulb, species have linear basal leaves and a slender stalk, up to 30 cm or more tall, bearing clusters of typically white star-shaped flowers, often striped with green.

Growing up in an integrated neighborhood in the Mobile suburb, he had never experienced overt racial discrimination until he played for the Cubs minor league club in San Antonio, Texas.

Growing up in the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae, he attended Naenae College and then Victoria University of Wellington.

Growing up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, home to renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, young Michael developed an interest in Wright's profession.

Growing up in Watertown, Massachusetts ( a suburb of Boston ) and Somerville, Massachusetts ( a city just north of Boston ), DaRosa later moved to New York, where he joined The Exit.