Grew-up Sentence Examples

We grew up together.

So this prince grew up to be a young man, tall and fair and graceful.

She added, "And you grew up to be nice."

The court at which he grew up was the focus of great activities, for Philip, by war and diplomacy, was raising Youth.

Thereafter a considerable trade grew up between Algiers and Spain.

The town grew up around the castle but never received a charter or had a governing body.

All that can with certainty be said is that a school or collection of schools gradually grew up in which especially medicine, but also, in a subordinate degree, law and philosophy were taught.

The original city grew up on the site of the City of London of the present day, on a slight eminence intersected by the Walor Wall-brook, and flanked on the west by the river Fleet.

Continuing westward, the most important stream was Tyburn, which rose at Hampstead, and joined the Thames through branches on either side of Thorney Island, on which grew up the great ecclesiastical foundation of St Peter, Westminster, better known as Westminster Abbey.

Einbeck grew up originally round the monastery of St Alexander (founded 1080), famous for its relic of the True Blood.

The town grew up around three forts established in close proximity - St James (British), Crevecoeur (Dutch) and Christiansborg (Danish).

Educated at the semi-Oriental provincial court of Juan Manuel, duke of Penafiel, Inez grew up side by side with Costanga, the duke's daughter by a scion of the royal house of Aragon, and her own cousin.

After Constantinople became the capital of the East a new road system grew up connecting the provinces with the capital.

That he learnt anything, and that he grew up an amiable and magnanimous man, were solely due to his natural worth, for no one ever owed less to education or to family example.

Tarentum (whether or no founded by pre-Dorian Greeks - its founders bore the unexplained name of Partheniae) became a Laconian colony at some unknown date, whence a legend grew up connecting the Partheniae with Sparta, and 707 B.C. was assigned as its traditional date.

The khanate of Khokand was a powerful state which grew up in the 18th century.

He grew up among enemies, and became artful, suspicious and self-controlled, concealing his feeling behind the mask of an immobile, almost repulsive, coldness.

In this way grew up the "religion of the poets," whose falseness and shallowness was patent even to contemporary thinkers.

When this began in 1267 to be the residence of the early Brunswick or Wolfenbuttel line of counts, a town gradually grew up around it.

In Levantine waters connexions grew up with the great marts of Chalcis and Miletus, with the rulers of Lydia, Phrygia, Cyprus and Egypt.

Even after the adoption in Europe of the Christian era, a great variety of methods of dating - national, provincial and ecclesiastical - grew up and prevailed for a long time in different countries, thus renewing in modern times the difficulties experienced in ancient times from diversities of reckoning.

He grew up resolved to emulate the medieval knights who had reconquered Portugal from the Moors.

Philip grew up grave, self-possessed and distrustful.

The rough surroundings of the Frankish court were unfavourable to the acquisition of learning, and Charles grew up almost ignorant of letters, but hardy in body and skilled in the use of weapons.

Fateh Sah, raja of Garhwal, endowed the temple which he built, round which grew up the town of Gurudwara or Dehra.

A new edition of the German Bible was issued with the view of meeting the needs of Catholics, a new religious literature grew up designed to, substantiate the beliefs sanctioned by the Roman Church and to carry out the movement begun long before toward spiritualizing its institutions and rites.

The Altstadt of Konigsberg grew up around the castle built in 1255 by the Teutonic Order, on the advice of Ottaker II.

Tilsit, which received civic rights in 1552, grew up around a castle of the Teutonic order, known as the "Schalauner Haus," founded in 1288.

He grew up in the country of his father's adoption,.

Treguier (Trecorum), which dates from the 6th century, grew up round a monastery founded by St Tugdual.

But side by side with the Hermae there grew up a more anthropomorphic conception of the god.

Under his sister's care the young emperor was trained in divers accomplishments which won him the name of Calligraphes ("the Penman"), but grew up into a weak though amiable character.

Out of this grew up in the 3rd or 4th century what is known as the arcani disciplina, or secret discipline of the Church, involving the concealment from the uninitiated and unholy of the more sacred parts of the Christian cult, such as baptism and the eucharist, with their various accompaniments, including the Creed and the Lord's Prayer.

Thus there grew up the sacrament of penance, which secured for those already baptized the forgiveness of post-baptismal sins.

In connexion with the sacraments grew up also the theory of clerical sacerdotalism.

By a legend which subsequently grew up the composition of it was assigned to St Adalbert.

However, as the primitive practice of public penance for sins died out in the Church, there grew up a system of equivalent, or nominally equivalent, private penances.

The critical period, during which the conception grew up of the New Covenant with its sacred book by the side of the Old Covenant, which in its written embodiment we call the Old Testament, extends roughly over the 2nd century.

It simply means that a certain religious and philosophical tendency, which grew up slowly on Greek soil, was already implanted in those who occupied the vantage-ground of a revealed religion of redemption.

If Neoplatonism is understood in the widest sense, as the highest and fittest expression of the religious movements at work in the Graeco-Roman empire from the 2nd to the 5th century, then it may be regarded as the twin-sister of the church dogmatic which grew up during the same period; the younger sister was brought up by the elder, then rebelled against her and at last tyrannized over her.

But though his natural defects of intellect and will-power were not improved by the pedantic tutoring to which he was submitted, he grew up pious, honest and well-meaning; and had fate cast him in any but the most stormy times of his country's history he might well have left the reputation of a model king.

In time a town grew up outside the castle, and its inhabitants received a series of charters from the de Bohuns, into which family the castle and lordship passed, the earliest recorded charter being granted by Humphrey, 3rd earl of Hereford.

An only son, late born, seeing no companions of his own age, hearing nothing but the voices of his parents and the hymns and prayers in the little Calvinist chapel, Arany grew up a grave and gentle, but by no means an ignorant child.

About this lode grew up Virginia City.

When he grew up Aegisthus slew Atreus, and ruled jointly with his father over Mycenae, until they were deposed by Agamemnon on his return from exile.

British visitors to Rome speak of him as a merry high-spirited boy with martial instincts; nevertheless, he grew up studious, peace-loving and serious.

A settlement probably grew up in Saxon times at Bridgwater (Briges, Briggewalteri, Brigewauter), owing its origin as a trade centre to its position at the mouth of the chief river in Somerset.

But there grew up a strong feeling of hostility between Drogheda versus Uriel and Drogheda versus Midiam, in consequence of trading vessels lading their cargoes in the latter or southern town, to avoid the pontage duty levied in the former or northern town.

Such was the moral atmosphere in which young Alexander Nicolaevich grew up to manhood.

During the centuries preceding the birth of Christ there grew up an apocalyptic literature which regarded as a primary truth the conception of a 1 Lactantius, Inst.

The great bulk of the Tirynthians must have lived in houses outside the citadel, but under the shelter of its protection, just as in medieval Italy villages grew up round the castles of any powerful lord.

One of Sufug's widows had fled to her Tai kindred in Central Arabia with her youngest son Faris; but when he grew up she brought him back in the seventies, and he immediately attracted a great following.

A settlement grew up about the fort, and the city was incorporated in 1873.

Then if the city grew up to this extended enceinte the outer forts would be too near.

Then there grew up all over Europe a system of fining the knights who failed to respond to the sovereign's call or to stay their full time in the field; and in England this fine developed, from the reign of Henry II.

The amice was worn first simply as a shoulder-cloth, but at the end of the 9th century the custom grew up of putting it on over the head and of wearing it as a hood, either while the other vestments were being put on or, according to the various uses of local churches, during part of the Mass, though never during the canon.

Smaller centres (the colonic - often formed in the remains of an ancient villa - the curtis or curia, the castrum, the casale) grew up later.

The village grew up round the abbey, and by the 15th century had become sufficiently important to excite the jealousy of the neighbouring burgh of Renfrew.

After the fall of Numantia, and still more after the death of Sertorius (72 B.C.), the Celtiberians became gradually romanized, and town life grew up among their valleys; Clunia, for instance, became a Roman municipality, and ruins of its walls, gates and theatre testify to its civilization; while Bilbilis (Bambola), another municipality, was the birthplace of the eminently Roman poet Martial.

The city originally grew up round the great temple of the god Assur, the foundation of which was ascribed to the High-priest Uspia.

Originally in Scotland imprisonment for debt was enforceable only in certain cases, but a custom gradually grew up of taking the debtor's oath to pay.

Spencer county was still a wilderness, and the boy grew up in pioneer surroundings, living in a rude log-cabin, enduring many hardships and knowing only the primitive manners, conversation and ambitions of sparsely settled backwoods communities.

Gradually, however, as a new generation grew up their influence declined.

Gueret grew up round an abbey founded in the 7th century, and in later times became the capital of the district of Marche.

Gateshead (Gateshewed) probably grew up during late Saxon times, the mention of the church there in which Bishop Walcher was murdered in 1080 being the - first evidence of settlement.

The belief gradually grew up that every dead man would have to face a similar trial before he could be admitted to a life of bliss in the other world.

Side by side there grew up an Alexandrian church, philosophic, disputative, ambitious, the very centre of Christian learning, and an Egyptian church, ascetic, contemplative, mystical.

As he grew up he became extremely dissatisfied with the dull and monotonous life he was compelled to lead; and his discontent was heartily shared by his sister, Wilhelmina, a bright and intelligent young princess for whom Frederick had a warm affection.

In 1889 Dr. Leyds, a young Hollander, was appointed state secretary, and the system of state monopolies around which so much corruption grew up was soon in full course of development.

He then filled up the hole, thinking his secret safe; but the reeds which grew up over the spot proclaimed it to all the world.

Carefully educated under the direction of Nils von Rosenstein, he grew up serious and conscientious.

The boy grew up amid the poor, coarse surroundings of the German peasant life, imbibing its simple beliefs.

But around this nucleus there soon grew up the great metropolis which was to be the centre of the civilized world as long as the Caliphate lasted.

A popular derivation of the name connected it with Edward's "dear queen" (chore reine), and a village of Cherringe or Charing grew up here later, but the true origin of the name is not known.

Donauwdrth grew up in the course of the I ith and 12th centuries under the protection of the castle of Mangoldstein, became in the 13th a seat of the duke of Upper Bavaria, who, however, soon withdrew to Munich to escape from the manes of his wife Maria of Brabant, whom he had there beheaded on an unfounded suspicion of infidelity.

In 1642 a ferry was established across East river from the present foot of Fulton Street, and a settlement grew up here which was known as The Ferry.

When he grew up he reigned over the Angles at " Slaswic."

These indications render it probable that the stories connecting Homer with different cities and islands grew up after his poems had become known and famous, especially in the new and flourishing colonies of Aeolis and Ionia.

The movement in favour of the union of the Bulgarian Church with Rome, which grew up in 1860, was the outcome of the national opposition to the Greeks, and with the establishment of the Bulgarian exarchate in 1872 it died away.

On the ruins of a medieval Christendom, hierarchically organized under the pope, grew up the " new mon archy, " or modern state, owning no law but its New own will.

Meanwhile the people grew up unused to arms. When Italy between the years 1494 and 1530 became the battlefield of French, German and Spanish forces, it was seen to what a point of helplessness the political, moral and social conditions of the Renaissance had brought the nation.

It is built on the left bank of the Aar, and grew up around the religious house of Austin Canons, founded about 1130 and suppressed in 1528.

Moreover, in proportion as the clergy, no longer mere ringleaders of a despised and persecuted sect, became beneficiaries and administrators of rich endowments - and this at a time when the external safeguards against embezzlement were comparatively weak - a strong feeling grew up among the laity that church revenues should not go to support the priest's family.

The two great empires, Assyria and Babylon, which grew up on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, can be separated as little historically as geographically.

Any one who accepts the Mattioli theory must be driven, as Lang suggests, to suppose that the mystery which grew up about the unknown prisoner was somehow transferred to Mattioli from Dauger.

It embraced everything, and directed the movement of things, by which there grew up a host of shapes and differences.

In 1812 he was aided by Cuvier to obtain the chair of anatomy and zoology in the Faculty of Sciences at Paris, but subsequently an estrangement grew up between the two men and ended in open enmity.

The town of Dehra grew up round the temple built in 1699 by the heretical Sikh Guru, Ram Rai, the founder of the Udasi sect of Ascetics.

This religion grew up in the midst of a settled peasant population, whose mode oflife and views it regards as the natural disposition of things.

According to the legends which grew up under the care of the monks, the first church of Glastonbury was a little wattled building erected by Joseph of Arimathea as the leader of the twelve apostles sent over to Britain from Gaul by St Philip. About a hundred years later, according to the same authorities, the two missionaries, Phaganus and Deruvianus, who came to king Lucius from Pope Eleutherius, established a fraternity of anchorites on the spot, and after three hundred years more St Patrick introduced among them a regular monastic life.

There thus grew up an ungrammatical dialect of Dutch, suited only to the most ordinary requirements of the everyday life of a rural population.

A new form of appeal grew up side by side with the older form, which had been mainly an oral procedure, namely the appeal by writing (appel par ecrit).

The town grew up round the castle which Henry de Beauchamp (or Beaumont) on his conquest of Gower about 1099, built on the west bank of the river.

But, being Buddhas, they were supposed to have their Bodhisats; and thus out of the five last Buddhas of the earlier teaching there grew up five mystic trinities, each group consisting of one of these five Buddhas, his prototype in heaven the Dhyani Buddha, and his celestial Bodhisat.

Under the Carolingian empire, a vast system grew up in the North Italian cities of episcopal "immunities," by which a city with its surrounding district was removed, more or less completely, from the jurisdiction of the ordinary authority, military or civil, and placed under that of the bishop. These "immunities" led to the temporal sovereignty of the bishops; under it the spirit of liberty grew more readily than under the military chief.

Municipal organization, never quite forgotten, naturally revived under new forms, and with its "consuls" at the head of the citizens, with its "arts" and "crafts" and "gilds," grew up secure under the shadow of the church.

A few houses grew up round the fort, and in 1820 besides the military there was a civilian population at Fort Frederick of about 35 persons.

It was during those years that there grew up in New England that form of thought or philosophy known as Transcendentalism.

It grew up without any fixed plan, and with little regard to the sanitary arrangements required for a town.

Other churches grew up in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Boston and New York, and the General Convention, which meets annually, was formed at Philadelphia in 1817.

The town grew up after the opening of the canal in 1768.

He had followed with interest Galileo's scientific discoveries and a respectful admiration grew up between them.

The son born to him before marriage grew up into a youth of shining promise.

It grew up as a consequence of customary subjection and natural husbandry; it melted away with the coming in of an industrial and commercial age.

Here he grew up in the midst of majestic peace, which was but once broken, and that by an event which made a deep impression on him - the War of 1812.

He was educated by his mother because, being a Protestant, he couldnot attend school, and he grew up at once thoughtful and passionate, studious and social, handsome in person and graceful in manners.

Here, near the granite quarries - whence was obtained the material for many magnificent monuments - there grew up another city, at first dependent on and afterwards successor to the island town.

To the men of the town which grew up outside the castle walls he gave, about the middle of the 12th century, a charter making them burgesses and granting them the same privileges as the town of Richmond in Yorkshire.

Its castle was built on a tongue of land flanked by two deep ravines, and behind this the town grew up in a semicircle on a stretch of bare and exposed tableland.

Instead of the once powerful confidence in the immediate presence of God there grew up a mass of speculation regarding on the one hand the distant future, on the other the distant past.

Ferdinand grew up athletic, but ignorant, ill-bred, addicted to the lowest amusements; he delighted in the company of the lazzaroni (the most degraded class of the Neapolitan people), whose dialect and habits he affected, and he even sold fish in the market, haggling over the price.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

An entire mythology soon grew up around the idea of re-birth.

It was out of this practice that later on Indulgences grew up.

Educated first in Spain and afterwards in France, the boy whose infancy had followed the fortunes of the imperial camp grew up a royalist and a Catholic. His first work in poetry and in fiction was devoted to the passionate proclamation of his faith in these principles.

Weissenburg grew up round a Benedictine abbey which was founded in the 7th century by Dagobert II.

He grew up amidst pietistic surroundings, which powerfully influenced him his life through, though he never became a Pietist.

Castres grew up round a Benedictine abbey, which is believed to have been founded in the 7th century.

Of the highly developed civilizations which grew up and flourished in Bactria, Bokhara and Samarkand the last survivals are now undergoing rapid obliteration with the simultaneous desiccation of the rivers and lakes.

The first English expedition to Benin was in 1553; after that time a considerable trade grew up between England and that country, ivory, palm-oil and pepper being the chief commodities exported from Benin.

It was owing to the existence of this ore that the town of Barrow grew up in the 19th century; at first as a port from which the ore was exported to South Wales, while later furnaces were established on the spot, and acquired additional importance on the introduction of the Bessemer process, which requires a non-phosphoric ore such as is found here.

From this date the borough and priory grew up side by side, but each preserving its independent privileges and rights of government until the dissolution of the latter in 1535.

With the growing power of the papacy a good many fictions grew up around his name, e.g.

The saga grew up in the quieter days which followed the change of faith (1002), when the deeds of the great families' heroes were still cherished by their descendants, and the exploits of the great kings of Norway and Denmark handed down with reverence.

Like the other great sanctuaries of Babylonia the temple had been founded in pre-Semitic times, and the future Babylon grew up around it.

A flourishing commerce, however, soon grew up in the Scandinavian towns; mints were established, and many foreign traders - Flemings, Italians and others - settled there.

When the chief's legitimate son Shane grew up he declined to be bound by this arrangement, which the king may have made in partial ignorance of the facts.

Bernay grew up round the Benedictine abbey mentioned above, and early in the 13th century was the seat of a viscount.

For purposes of defence early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides, and these early citadels became in many parts of the world the nuclei of large cities which grew up on the surrounding lower ground.

But the exploration of sites in the southern half of Lower Nubia has revealed the existence of a wholly unsuspected independent civilization which grew up during the first six centuries after Christ.

The various kingdoms which grew up round each large town had their own rulers, but in the first half of the 16th century they all appear to have owned the sway of the Songhoi kings (see Timbuktu).

With the extension of its use, too, the custom grew up (c. 1300) of investing clerks with the biretum as the symbol of the transfer of a benefice, a custom which survives, in Roman Catholic countries, in the solemn delivery of the red biretta by the head of the state to newly created cardinals, who afterwards go to Rome to receive the red hat.

The new town grew up around the vast locomotive and wagon works of the Great Western railway, and is an important junction on that syrtem with a separate station on the Midland and SouthWestern Junction railway.

Werden grew up around the Benedictine abbey, which was dissolved in 1802.

Evesham (Homme, Ethomme) grew up around the Benedictine abbey, and had evidently become of some importance as a trading centre in 1055, when Edward the Confessor gave it a market and the privileges of a commercial town.

I came to the mountains because this is where I grew up – hiking in the hills.

She saw a time before the emergence of human civilization, when his people ruled, a time when he was a prince among kings who grew up in the shadow of a war she couldn't see.

Barbaric murder is barbaric murder is barbaric murder, I don't care where you grew up.

She was born in Malacca (Malaysia) and grew up in a world of colorful batiks and silks.

Bohemian, liberal atmosphere in which I grew up.

From my father; from the kind of very Bohemian, liberal atmosphere in which I grew up.

I was born and grew up in Dorchester, Dorset and I am a proper west Country bumpkin!

I grew up surrounded by cornfields all around me.

We can't get jobs coz of our past That's why we grew up too fast.

In many ways I grew up fatherless, at least emotionally, with a father that was physically present but never emotionally.

The Egyptian civilization grew up along the banks of the River Nile, where annual floods made the soil fertile.

She grew up all players to layne flack phil.

I grew up singing jazz and I can compete in this music field.

Ross grew up to be the strapping lad he is today and this is a photo of us the day we left school.

I was the only lefty in the house I grew up in.

Inside of his left forearm is a tiger, next to three initials in Gothic lettering that represent the neighborhood he grew up in.

Dora Scott was born in 1885, and grew up amidst the Scott family's literary and artistic milieu.

Many of us grew up watching the misadventures of the misplaced magician.

Naomi Pinnock, this year's prizewinner, was born in 1979 and grew up in West Yorkshire.

She grew up riding racehorses in South Lanarkshire and was a student in South India at a Hindu Univesrity.

He grew up among oil riggers, then went to Stanford University on a golf scholarship.

People have sectarian stereotypes because they grew up and live in a society which is sectarian in nature.

She grew up to be a very handsome girl, and was a very bright sunbeam in the homestead.

Many of the fairy tales we grew up with are examples.

The Community Center I grew up with was just a small terrapin temporary building.

His father was a Quaker and a tory, but Fielden grew up a radical, and ultimately became a Unitarian.

That idea of a method grew up with his study of geometry and arithmetic, - the only branches of knowledge which he would allow to be " made sciences."

He was the organizer of an endless official army, of an elaborate technical system of administration, which had nothing like it in England before, but which grew up to perfection under Norman rulers.

It is probable that, as in Palestine an Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew text was found to be necessary, so in Alexandria the Septuagint grew up gradually, as need arose.

All the earlier accounts agree that he had a winning personality and considerable talent, but he was badly educated, systematically terrorized by a brutal governor and hopelessly debauched by corrupt pages, and grew up a semi-idiot.

Most of his reforms have since been intelligently carried out as normal principles in more arts than one; but, shocking as the statement may seem to loth-century orthodoxy, Wagnerian harmony is a universe as yet unexplored, except by the few composers who are so independent of its bewildering effect on the generation that grew up with it, that they can use Wagner's resources as discreetly as he used them himself.

Regarded as a tribe, it lay to the north of Benjamin, which traditionally belongs to it; but whether the young "brother" (see Benjamin) sprang from it, or grew up separately, is uncertain.

As a result Michael grew up a debauchee, and fell under the sway of his uncle Bardas, who induced him to banish Theodora to a convent and practically assumed the chief control (857).

Under his sister's care the young emperor was trained in divers accomplishments which won him the name of Calligraphes (" the Penman"), but grew up into a weak though amiable character.

The castle round which the town grew up was founded I According to the theory now generally adopted, the Etruscan Volsinii occupied the site of Orvieto, which was hence called Urbs vetus in late classical and medieval times, while the Roman Volsinii was transferred to Bolaena (see VoLsINtu).

The interference of the state with his education, when he was quite a child, was, however, doubly harmful, as his parents taught him to despise the preceptors imposed upon him by the diet, and the atmosphere of intrigue and duplicity in which he grew up made him precociously experienced in the art of dissimulation.

The king himself (see EDWARD VII.), who nobly earned the title of Edward the Peacemaker, played no small part in the domestic and international politics of these years; and contemporary publicists,whohadbecomeaccustomedto Victorian traditions, gradually realized that, within the limits of the constitutional monarchy, there was much more scope for the initiative of a masculine sovereign in public life than had been supposed by the generation which grew up after the death of his father in 1862.

In process of time powerful states grew up with capitals at Napata and Meroe (see ante § Archaeology and Ethiopia and Egypt).

He grew up to become a famous man and one of our greatest orators.

They grew up healthy and strong.

By and by, the eggs hatched, and a nestful of young doves grew up.

I grew up on a farm.

There grew up a mass of controversial matter which it is amusing to read now.

A great storyteller and able to remember small details, he would recount stories from a lost age in which he grew up.

They were brought up as girls, but were much more inclined to rough-and-tumble play as they grew up.

She lives in Dallas now but grew up in Hilla, a city southwest of Baghdad adjacent to the ruins of ancient Babylon.

Chris Dench was born in London in 1953 and grew up in Dover; he is self-taught as a composer.

Instead of the rich colloquial language of the American worlds Twain grew up in we have here a stilted formal language.

A thriving steel industry grew up around Toledo as the water in the river Tagus has special properties for the tempering the steel.

He claims that being Irish makes him an unbiased observer; he grew up isolated from absolutely everybody.

His father was a Quaker and a tory, but Fielden grew up a radical, and ultimately became a unitarian.

Then 18th-century musicians bemoaned the florid and vapid new style of Italian virtuosity which was destroying the true art on which they grew up.

Lucinda would never understand how her sweet son grew up to be such a malevolent individual.

The second Joseph is the one who was sold as a slave by his jealous brothers but grew up to become a great man in Egypt.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, by Pam Adams is a beautifully illustrated book of the folk song that many grew up with.

Being first-generation Greeks, my sister and I grew up with all the rich traditions of the Greek heritage.

I grew up thinking that doorknobs were all made of brass and came in just one size, the traditional round knob, pictured below.

Another common style of wood furniture is the Adirondack style, which grew up around the elegant lodge homes that dot New York's Adirondack Mountains.

The first is for people who grew up with a formal living room and a casual den.

Now, video gamers, especially those who grew up in the first decade or so, want to relive some of those games that they got started on.

The birthday album is perfect for seeing how birthday wishes and presents change over the years and how quickly your child grew up!

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1927, Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, lovingly known as Tom Jobim, grew up in the lush tropical country of Brazil near the seaside community of Ipenema.

Another definition is someone who grew up in the ghetto, and when they became wealthy, used the money on frivolous things like cars, clothes, and jewelry instead of wealth-building items like real estate, stocks, and etcetera.

If you grew up next to the ocean, your nuptials can still be special, including a backdrop of a location special to you and your fiancé - perhaps a strip of beach you walked on a first date, or the spot where he proposed.

I grew up in a large city in the Midwest, went to the right schools, right clubs and knew the right people.

Faith grew up knowing that she was adopted, and she felt blessed to be chosen.

He grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, as the third of five children.

He grew up in St. Andrew's Parish, just north of Kingston, relatively insulated from the poverty that is rife in Kingston.

Bloom grew up believing that Harry Saul Bloom was his father, but after Harry Bloom's death, Sonia Bloom revealed to her son that his father was actually family friend Colin Stone.

Tony, Daniel, and Brad all grew up in this suburb of the Silicon Valley area and began their interest in filmmaking at a very young age.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee to parents Randall Timberlake and Lynn Bomar, Justin Timberlake grew up in a small town north of Memphis.

Born August 25, 1968 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Rachael Domenica Ray practically grew up in the kitchen.

Born Eva Jacqueline Longoria on March 15, 1975, Longoria grew up on a ranch in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Kourtney grew up in the limelight with her famous parents, and has embraced her fame with a string of reality television shows including Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Natalie Portman was born in 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel, although she grew up in the United States.

She was born on April 18, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, where she also grew up.

He grew up in the town of Arroyo Grande, which lies halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

While he grew up on television, he faded from the spotlight after the successful series ended.

I grew up listening to all types of tunes.

Both actors are fervently protective of their privacy.The actress, who grew up without following a specific religion, converted to Judaism (Cohen's faith) after studying the subject for several years.

Check out the Jimmy Kimmel bio to find out how this former altar boy grew up to be a comedian known for his testosterone driven humor.

Swayze grew up near Houston and studied classical dance and ballet throughout his childhood and teen years.

Hilton is quoted on the blog Betty Confidential as saying that the Hilton girls grew up with the Kardashians.

Heidi Klum was born on June 1, 1973 and grew up in a small city just outside of Cologne, West Germany.

Fey grew up watching comedy with her family, favoring old movies and classic television shows like The Honeymooners.

If you grew up in the 1980s, you may find yourself wondering whatever happened to Phoebe Cates from time to time.

If you're a fan of 1970s cinema or grew up during that era, the question "Whatever happened to Ali MacGraw?" may have gone through your mind.

He grew up in Lakewood, near Los Angeles.

When she was still an infant her family moved to California, where she grew up and attended school.

She grew up on a chicken farm, earning good grades in school and drawing attention with her good looks and winning smile.

The young Singer family moved from Canada to New York, and finally ended up in Corpus Christi, Texas, where Marc and his siblings grew up.

As some children who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s will attest, the combination of the design of socks and shoes meant the socks were always sliding down the leg and bunching up under the heel, needing to be yanked up several times a day.

A generation who grew up with the Internet turns to computers for entertainment, the latest trends and pages of college humor.

As I grew up and went on to boarding school my roommates used to say, "Wennie sleeps like an Apache Indian with one eye open ready to jump up and do battle at a moment's notice."

As you grew up and developed more, you may have ventured into black or beige.

Unfortunately, that attitude still has a lot of traction amongst older men who grew up during a time when sex was a taboo subject, no matter what your age.

Babies born between 1952-1957, often called the peak years of the Baby Boom, grew up with the decade of the 1960s as their formative years.

Yet the Baby Boomers born on the other end of the spectrum, the years after 1958, grew up in a different time.

They grew up listening to disco music, dance music and they did the Hustle.

Children born during the last six years of the Baby Boom grew up in an entirely different time.

This may be disturbing for retirees who grew up in a different era, i.e. before language became more vulgar and invitations for coupling more explicit.

If you grew up in the southwestern part of the buckeye state, then you will fondly remember Americana Amusement Park in Ohio.

One of the main reasons why people like the Wii Virtual Console is that they are able to enjoy some of the games that they grew up playing as children.

Not surprisingly, this popular online video game review show largely appeals to people who grew up playing video games in the 1980s and 1990s.

The core audience that grew up with Nintendo's systems were ready for something more adult.

Many of us grew up playing with Legos, constructing our own little worlds out of those versatile building blocks.

Many people who grew up playing classic games such as Pong, Super Mario Bros. or Tecmo Bowl will attest that video games are harmless hobbies that offer welcome entertainment at the end of a long day.

Yun and Yang Lee were born in Shanghai, but grew up in Hong Kong.

If you grew up jumping on goombas or running away from ghosts in Pac-Man, then the nostalgic value of many video game parodies may be for you as well.

Anyone who grew up playing the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) would have surely encountered the famous Double Dragon series.

The hardcore gamer of today grew up with simpler entertainment.

In a study of more than 500 children, University of Michigan researchers discovered that children who were viewed as the most aggressive by their peers at age eight grew up to commit increasingly more serious crimes as adults.

Dancing since the age of three, Mason grew up in a dancing family and went on to become the youngest winner of the show, winning $250,000 and a feature on the cover of Dance Spirit magazine.

She grew up extremely upper class, and moved to Southern California when she was a teenager.

She grew up in a family that loved dancing, and her childhood home even has a dance floor inside of it.

If you grew up camping, rock climbing and kayaking, you're probably well-prepared for a career in outdoor recreation, but you shouldn't stop there.

I grew up seeing a lot of peacocks in our farms and that inspired us.

Since Ms. Watson has grown into a beauty, and moreover one that many think has a strong fashion sense, it's only natural that those who grew up watching her now want to see a whole lot more of her.

Of Albanian and Italian decent, Kara DioGuardi grew up in New Rochelle, New York, and went on to receive a degree in political science at Duke University.

Maybe you grew up reading the classic Peanuts comic strip penned by Charles Schultz.

Although Marie grew up as the only girl in a family of nine children, she fell in love with dolls.

In fact many of us grew up taking large doses of vitamin C to fight a cold because we were told you couldn't take too much.

While many of us grew up thinking you can never overdose on vitamin C, recent studies suggested that too much vitamin C puts us at risk for a variety of health-related problems.

Maybe you grew up in the 80s when everything was neon, stonewashed or loaded down with accessories a la Madonna.

We both grew up in the same small town so I know all the things he likes and most of them I like them too.

Ask about where she grew up and what it was like.

Select a ring that represents a place special to you, such as the area where you both grew up or the location of your honeymoon.

Johnson grew up wanting to be a dancer, and her love of flashy costumes and creativity laid the foundation for her loud style that is now loved by millions.

The bag's dark brown lining was chosen as a nod to the color of the uniforms she wore at the orphanage where she grew up.

Coyote, and Rev Runner are clearly inspired by the classic Warner Brothers Looney Toons characters that they grew up with themselves.

The ever popular movie of the week was seen on many television stations as a part of a weekly weekend special like the Wide World of Disney show which many grew up on.

Mary Hunt grew up in a lower income family and says she was often embarrassed when she needed to wear hand-me-down clothes.

Mark Thatcher, an expert boatman who grew up on the Grand Canyon and later worked there as a river guide, started Teva Shoes over 20 years ago.

Another AMC regular, Darnell was the child of a military family, where he grew up in England, Japan and New York.

He grew up in San Francisco, and his ethnic intrigue stems from his El Salvadoran father and Nicaraguan mother.

Actress Kimberly McCullough began playing the role of Robin in 1985 at the age of seven and literally grew up on the canvas, maturing to a young woman.

Through the years, the audience witnessed Fletcher's growth on screen as Ritchie herself grew up.

The show's unique cast, including actress Kate Richie (who literally grew up on the show), continues to please audiences in Australia and many other countries.

The character grew up on EastEnders and has been portrayed by many different actresses.

Born in Scarsdale, New York on December 23, 1946, Susan Lucci actually grew up in Garden City, New Jersey.

Born in Indiana, Canary grew up in Ohio and indulged his first loves of football and music before making his Broadway debut.

Tara was a sophisticated, talented young woman who grew up in Bon Temps and was one of Sookie's oldest friends, but they lost touched.

Chris grew up in Miami, but he lived in Brazil for five years and traveled throughout Europe exploring different tattoo styles.

A world-renowned tattoo artist, Chris grew up in Pittsburgh and began tattooing in his late teens.

Stalking Cat, whose real name is Dennis Avner, was heavily influenced by the Huron and Lakota tribes of Native Americans in the community where he grew up.

This princess grew up to marry the High King of Ireland, and was happy by all accounts.

You grew up on the beach or close to it.

Patrick grew up in a humble home, and throughout his young life committed to various organizations as a way to help.

At the time this was a foreign concept for this Midwesterner who grew up on the big three-meat, potatoes and a cooked vegetable.

Blaine Jelus grew up with a natural talent for cooking, as well as a deep love for food.

He grew up a sick child and studied bodybuilding, yoga and gymnastics to improve his health.

Krieff grew up in Malibu and opened her own Pilates studio more than a decade ago.

Women who grew up wearing girdles either continue to wear them, even with the wealth of modern-day choices, or they may choose newer products such as Spanx.

I grew up in this business in New Jersey and I founded Sylene of Washington more than 30 years ago.

Adolescence has never been a lot of fun, but for girls who grew up in the time of corsets, it was the beginning of a lifetime of discomfort.

Second, briefs are a classic and a staple of the men's lingerie industry; its what most men grew up wearing, and as such, many remain loyal wearers to this day.

Onweagba grew up in Nigeria and was voted the "Face of Africa" at the age of 16.

Born in 1969, she grew up listening to the likes of Bob Dylan and Captain Beefheart on a sheep farm in Yeovil.

Most of that came from Simonon, who grew up in Brixton, in a largely West Indian neighborhood.

Reggae was what he grew up hearing, and it would remain his favorite type of music.

As the daughter of two pastors, Perry grew up singing in the church and as such discovered music at an early age.

Tim grew up believing that his stepfather was his real father, until he discovered a birth certificate which listed minor league baseball player Tug McGraw as his dad.

The creator of Barney and the Backyard Game, Sheryl Leach, originally came up with the idea for Barney & Friends while trying to find an educational and entertaining television show for her son to watch as he grew up.

Born Amy Jade Winehouse on September 14, 1983, Winehouse grew up in the Southall neighborhood of London.

She was one of twelve children and grew up living with her parents and siblings in a one-room cabin in the Locust Ridge area of the county.

Mozart grew up in a musical family, with father Leopold a small composer who taught and published textbooks on the topic.

Maple and oak are most traditional, but where I grew up there were sassafras trees as well as the usual so feel free to add your own favorites to your crafts.

Play music from the decade that the guest of honor grew up in as a way to commemorate the day.

If many of the party guests grew up in the decade, ask them to share photos of themselves from the 80s.

She had a tendency to butt heads with the shop owners, Ami James and Chris Nunez, and soon decided to leave Miami and head back to California, where she grew up.

T.I. took Trey through the neighborhoods he grew up in and took him to the grave of a friend who had recently died in a nightclub fight.

Simmons was born in Israel in 1949, but grew up in the United States.

Frankie Amato Jr. - Frankie is a first cousin to Buddy, and the two grew up together in the same neighborhood.

Subsequently, PC grew up surrounded by rock stars, artists, and the city's elite.

Choi was born in Seoul, Korea, and grew up in Virginia.

Les Stroud was born on October 20, 1961, in the small town of Mimico, Ontario, Canada, where he grew up and attended school.

Joe'l grew up a tough girl from Jersey, but her chutzpah comes in handy when dealing with bridezillas.

She grew up in Oregon and Washington State, spending most of her childhood in a town along the Columbia River called The Dalles.

Kody grew up in a monogamous household and turned to plural marriage as an adult for religious reasons.

Meri grew up in polygamy and chose it for herself as an adult.

Christine Brown - Christine grew up in polygamy and always wanted to be a third wife, saying they don't have to go first and they don't rock the boat like the second wife.

Simmons grew up with fellow model Tyra Banks.

Born August 18, 1965, Robert "Bob" Harper grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.

She grew up in a noisy household full of conflict, and she found that the hair dryer's warmth and noise gave her comfort.

She grew up in the family business, and after earning her business administration degree from Michigan State University she earned a graduate degree in diamond certification so she could help the family make better deals on jewelry.