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 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.

Soon after, he became a recurring cast member on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains, playing Luke Brower, a homeless boy who is taken in by the Seaver family.

Growing up in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Stairs showed athletic ability at an early age, playing Beaver League baseball a year before his age eligibility and excelling in hockey.

Growing up in a musical family, brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin began playing instruments at a young age.

At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s she also had a regular guest spot on Growing Pains ( playing Alan Thicke's mother ).

He later hosted the PBS series Make Yourself at Home and taught voice classes, and made frequent appearances on the hit television show, Growing Pains playing Joanna Kerns's father.

Growing up in Queens and Brooklyn, Lenny originally began playing accordion, but by the end of the 1950s, had dropped the instrument in favor of collecting records.

Growing up in Southern California, Snider was a gifted all-around athlete, playing basketball, football, and baseball at Compton High School, class of 1944.

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.

The Temptations ' " It's Growing " features Earl Van Dyke playing a toy piano for the song's introduction, snow chains are used as percussion on Martha & the Vandellas ' " Nowhere to Run ", and a custom oscillator was built to create the synthesizer sounds used to accent several Holland-Dozier-Holland compositions and productions, such as Diana Ross & the Supremes ' " The Happening " and " Reflections.

On January 5, Gordon again teamed with Kreutzmann and Scott Murawski in Jaco, Costa Rica, for a performance at Doce Lunas, playing a range of covers and originals including " Keep On Growing " " Estimated Prophet " " Twist " and " Intensified ".

Tracey Gold ( born May 16, 1969 ) is an American actress and former child star best known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains.

In an episode of Friends, Chandler Bing ( Matthew Perry ) mocked the ubiquitous NBC commercials that popularized the phrase (" A very special Blossom "); Perry himself appeared in " a very special episode " of Growing Pains earlier in his career, playing Carol Seaver's teenage boyfriend who dies of injuries sustained in a car accident after a night of underage drinking.

Growing up and playing hockey in his hometown Gatineau, Briere played Bantam hockey in 1992-93 for the Abitibi Regents before graduating to the AAA Gatineau Intrepide of the Quebec Midget League for the 1993-94 season.

Growing up in Nacogdoches, Texas, Dempsey played for one of the top youth football clubs in the state, the Dallas Texans, before playing for Furman University's men's football team.

Growing up surrounded by talent, he recalls a childhood conversation with Bob Dylan, who, on the subject of guitar playing, advised the 11-year-old Bibb to " Keep it simple, forget all that fancy stuff ".

Growing up, Page enjoyed playing with action figures and climbing trees.

Growing up in the Sydney Croatian community, Kalac began his professional playing career rising through the ranks at Sydney United, competing in the Australian National Soccer League.