Becoming A Man Quotes

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds… For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

I don’t want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

There’s nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man… to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that’s a recipe for disaster.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That’s cool. But, I really don’t get how there’s only two choices. There’s no two of anything else in the entire universe; why should there only be two genders? I don’t get it.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Midnight passes and I’m twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I’m not promoting that. But my songs are talking… about me becoming a man.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a manВ—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.