As a schoolboy in Bavaria, he learned about the Greeks and the Romans, and thought he would study them when he grew up.
One of the hippie girls had said that he, Eber, would be a fox when he grew up, and would he please be sure to call her at that time?
When he was 6 his dad died, and he grew up in the Catskills of New York with a stepfather who owned a small dairy farm, and his mother, a manicurist.
Speaking at the unveiling, Sheen recalled the awe he felt when Burton and Taylor visited the village where he grew up.
The rancher said that when the kid grew up he might do a separate housing development on each parcel.
Investigators "asked you about your personal life, how you got along with your brothers when you grew up, " he said.
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He fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was seven years old and grew up in the Kyangwali refugee camp in Uganda.
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He grew up around Laredo, when his family wasn't moving with his father, an Air Force pilot.
Anzor said he grew up in Soviet times, when it was taken for granted that Muslims didn't have to follow such strict rules.
Mr. Kagan, who grew up a Truman Democrat, says that when he was young the U.S. needed to redress an imbalance by emphasizing equality.
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Asadi grew up in Chubayish and he was here when, just after the fall of Saddam's regime, the marsh people took shovels and broke Saddam's embankment, letting the water of the river rush out onto the plain.
Born in Taipei in 1933, Koo grew up in comfort, though his father died when he was three.
Mr. Papu, who was born in Colombia but grew up in Miami, also contacted the company when he was pulled over for speeding on the way home from a Vermont ski trip last winter.
Tom Berson, a California cryptographer hired by Skype in 2005 to evaluate its security, says he met the programmers, who told him they grew up when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union and had the perils of "wiretapping in mind" when creating Skype.
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Born in 1939 in Witbank near Johannesburg, Masekela grew up when "every house had a gramophone, " as he says.
Ryan Nicodemus grew up with divorced, cash-strapped parents, so when he got a telecommunications job in Dayton, Ohio, he made up for lost time.
Mr. Winters was born Nov. 11, 1925, in Dayton, Ohio and grew up during the Depression as an only child whose parents divorced when he was 7.
Diversity: Sampson, who grew up in an African American community saw his own world expand exponentially when he attended Tulane University.
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As he explained in a September 21 interview, Frenkiel grew up in Orange County, Calif. and was headed towards law when he entered Stanford.
When VanDerWerff talked to CNN about the article, he also said that the present generation that grew up on "Friends" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" grew weary of the copycat versions that networks churned out.
He grew up in a migrant farming family and picked vegetables and fruits in California when he wasn't in school.
When Robbins was five, he was able to stop wearing leg braces, and, as he grew up, he developed an uncanny degree of dexterity.
When Rose grew up, Ruskin proposed, unsuccessfully, but one gets the feeling that marriage was not what he really wanted.
Rather than anyone he grew up watching, Harper emulates players his father told him about, like Mantle or, when it comes to home-run trots, Pete Rose.
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