Growing Into A Young Man Quotes

#1. I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

Hugh Jackman

#2. I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

Ray Rice

#3. Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.

Jimmy Fallon

#4. Lord Rand," Nynaeve snorted. "That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.

Robert Jordan

#5. My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.

Tubby Smith

#6. Time comes when every man's got to feel something new
when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

Clare Boothe Luce

#7. You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today ... and every day.

Jim George

#8. Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Victor Hugo

#9. The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Elvis Presley

#10. My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Cory Booker

#11. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.

Gene Wolfe

#12. Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land
too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

Keith Ablow

#13. My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Dave Mustaine

#14. There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Doris Lessing

#15. We have so many young men, especially, who are growing up without their dads. We have to fill that void. We have to do a better job helping young people see what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman. And then, somehow, we have to put that family structure back together.

Tony Dungy

#16. A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Michel De Montaigne