“Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.” NeedsHas BeensMadeEnoughKidsSchoolGrowsWalksBehindsBoysGrowing UpSpecialSandTeaseHad EnoughBulliedElementary SchoolSpecial Needs Author:Lauren Potter
“I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges of getting our needs met and managing boundaries are inherent in growing up human.” WayNeedsHumansSeemsEarthChallengesPerfectGrowing UpGrowingPlanetsMetsBoundariesInherentUpbringingPlanet Earth Author:David Simon
“I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.” NeedsI CanAgeGrowsGrowing UpOkayMature Author:Kay Panabaker
“Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGrowsGrowing UpReady Author:Kay Panabaker
“I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.” WorldWantNeedsChildrenDreamYoungGrowsGrowing UpAdventureDiscoveryInnovationBetter PlaceExplorersGreat AdventureMit Author:Susan Hockfield
“I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood friends of mine when I was growing up in Scotland. They don't look at me any different than when we were in primary school. So it's good to keep people like that around you. I think if you surround yourself with good honest people, they will tell you what to hear when you need to hear it.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsLooksDifferentSchoolGuyThreeGrowing UpGrowingChildhoodHonestMinesPrimariesSurroundScotlandLook At MeSurround YourselfHonest PeoplePrimary SchoolChildhood Friend Author:Johnny Reid
“I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.” IfsWorldNeedsBelieveChildrenI CanStatesEnoughPlayHelpingOpportunityI BelieveGrowsUnitedPovertyRolesUnited StatesGrowing UpAssumingFrustrationStableProsperousTime Of Need Author:Bill Gates
“My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.” KnowsNeedsI CanIdeasHelpingLightEnergyGrowing UpGrowingBuddhismEvolutionLiberationNo IdeaTeenageRamaEnergy And Light Author:Frederick Lenz
“It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.” ThinkingNeedsBookStoriesArtistGrowsAudienceGrowing UpCoupleComicSophisticatedComic BookGangRivals Author:Todd McFarlane
“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.” NeedsWritingMadeBookUseMightWould BeAgeFoundPayGrowing UpGrowingEasierStressWesternIndividualityComplicatedMade ItThemeComing Of AgeIntensityAdolescenceStrainInvolvementComplicationWestern SocietySamoaPopular Book Author:Margaret Mead
“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.” NeedsChildrenAgeYoungParentGrowing UpGrowingYoung AgeFoster Children Author:Michelle Monaghan
“My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.” NeedsWritingHardWould BeBitsEmotionGrowing UpGrowingAdviceSpares Author:Joanna Trollope
“You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'” NeedsI CanHelpingAsksRealizingSupportGrowing UpGrowingWeaknessRelyNeed HelpSupport Systems Author:Kerri Walsh
“I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGrowing UpGrowingOne Love Author:Stephen Fry
“I've tried, at every step in life, to find a lesson. And accepting criticism with the same grace that you do the applause is something every young athlete needs to learn. ... I think it served me well to learn how to handle everything that came with the game's ups and downs. Some people call it growing another layer of skin. I just call it growing up.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsYoungGamesAcceptingStepsGrowing UpGraceGrowingLessonsCriticismSkinsAthleteHandleNflLayersApplauseUps & DownsEvery StepYoung AthletesSteps In Life Author:Dan Marino
“The word ‘philanthropy’ brings up an image of somebody who’s had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls. I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot.” NeedsGivingMayFeltCareersGrowing UpGrowingWallInstitutionsPhilanthropyRetiredIvy Author:Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
“Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn't change the old racial order. I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingDoeDifferentKidsLife IsOrderFatherBlackWhiteRaceGrowing UpGrowingCenturyLove YouMy FamilySticksCategoriesBlack People19th Century18th Century Author:Benjamin Jealous
“I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.” NeedsChildrenHomeGrowsHoursWatchesGrowing UpFourMy ChildrenChunksCarvingRandom Things Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsKindPersonsDreamKidsSecretGrowing UpGrowingExcitingAwfulPretendingSecret LifeDream World Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers
“God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms, Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.” WayNeedsLooksMeanLittlesI CanFactsJesusHeavenWishGrowsGrowing UpImpossibleArmsOppositesBiggerAimFaultsSaintLiftsSpiteGoing To Heaven Author:Therese of Lisieux
“Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers yourself. You don't need to throw the ball in the air and play catch with yourself. You get a bucket of balls and go out there with your clubs, and you hit and learn and you get better. And there's no top.” NeedsPlayGamesAnswersGrowing UpGrowingAirTeamBallsGolfClubsGet BetterRelatedBuckets Author:George Lopez
“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsKindCasesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleStreetsFrontsNew YorkStrangeWalkingHorrorToughMuseumsRidingSubway Author:Christopher Walken
“When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.” NeedsHumorFunnyUsedRealizingGrowing UpGrowingDrugDoctorsDealerRobins Author:Robin Williams
“When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.” NeedsChildrenYoungGrowsGrowing UpAdults Author:Vestal McIntyre
“I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.” WorldNeedsWellsI CanWholeJobsFilmCan DoGrowing UpGrowingDirectorsWho I AmRealizationI Can Do ItGreat FilmLater In Life Author:John Carpenter
“The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude.” IfsThinkingNeedsTryingPersonsKidsMoralGrowing UpNiceGrowingDogLike YouStandardsThoughtfulRudeNice Person Author:Julianne Hough
“You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.” IfsWantNeedsJobsParentResponsibilitySupportGrowing UpGrowingIndustryFortunateBeing The BestDedicationRelentless Author:Danica Patrick
“[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.” PeopleWayWantNeedsMadeIdeasHateGrowing UpGrowingSpecialMetsI HateShoesDenialRestaurantsNeighborhoodStrictAllergicAllergiesSpecial NeedsTailoredLotion Author:Carrie Brownstein
“My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.” IfsNeedsParentNumbersGrowing UpFocusGrowingConversationDinnerFocusedWhy NotTopicsOrientationDoing Your BestBest EducationDinner Conversation Author:Michelle Rhee
“We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.” NeedsWellsEvilGrowsRealizingGrowing UpWrittenSacredScriptureSacred Scripture Author:Saint Basil
“All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.” WayNeedsStillsWantedPainParentTermGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingWorstRealisingNeed You Author:John Lennon
“I want to be a positive influence in little girls' eyes. Little girls need to be confident and grow up with a healthy state of mind. It's a tough, tough world out there.” WorldWantNeedsMindLittlesStatesEyeGirlGrowsGrowing UpInfluenceHealthyToughState Of MindBe ConfidentPositive InfluenceTough World Author:Christy Carlson Romano
“I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.” KnowsNeedsImportantGuyGrowsKnow HowGrowing UpCarWoodsSpectators Author:Hilarie Burton
“Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.” WantNeedsChildrenBodyGrowsDecisionGrowing UpPierce Author:Kim Basinger
“I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldLightSchoolJobsGamesFunHoursGrowing UpGrowingIndustryVideoBrandsSatNicheAfter SchoolPlaying Video GamesFriends Growing Up Author:Shawne Merriman
“My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.” NeedsFeelsFirstsPlayForceRoomsActingGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkTheaterAssRehearsal Author:Paul Dano
“When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.” WantNeedsTryingParentGrowing UpGrowing Author:Rick Nielsen
“I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to a normal school? Do you need to go to a special school? What is going to become of you when you grow up? Are you going to have to live on social security and SSI?” NeedsMeanSchoolSocialGrowsWalksGrowing UpStudySpecialSecurityNormalMathSocial Security Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.” NeedsGivingMeanSelfShowsGrowsGrowing UpUniqueWake UpSymphonySelf GivingUnique GiftsUnique Self Author:Marc Gafni
“Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is, I've been in lots of place growing up and listening to people tell great tales of sexual conquest. It is an immature thing to do -” PeopleNeedsFeelsMatterFactsGrowing UpGrowingListeningTalesFeel GoodThings To DoConquestImmature Author:Benjamin Carson