Quotes About Being A Boy To A Man

#1. It cost me my identity. Being molested created such sexual and emotional confusion that I was an old man before I was fifteen and still a boy at thirty. I felt numb and removed, like I was not there, just a piece of property for others to use and discard. - Author: Gregory R. Reid

#2. Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard. - Author: Warren Rudman

#3. That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works. - Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint. - Author: Dave Donovan

#5. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking. - Author: Angela Carter

#6. Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?' - Author: Mitch Kapor

#7. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man. - Author: Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. - Author: Bob Dylan

#9. A king who does not protect his people is no king at all. - Author: George R R Martin

#10. 'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man. - Author: Seth Gabel

#11. [We] have sex like Kenyan marathon runners. - Author: Olivia Wilde

#12. [Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17. - Author: Will Cuppy

#13. Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.'
'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine. - Author: Melina Marchetta

#14. You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest. - Author: Junot Diaz

#15. Every time they have somebody born in the movies, it is a little boy. They never have little girls being born. What makes boys so great and woooonnnderfullll? I can do anything a boy can do - Author: Fannie Flagg

#16. Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. - Author: T. S. Eliot

#17. You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be? - Author: Stephen Leacock

#18. The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included. - Author: Carrie Chapman Catt

#19. A boy is content to be made into a civil man by caning, or any one of a number of other stratagems, but a girl, being disqualified by Nature, as it were, from such physical brutality, must remain forever something of a terra incognita. Don't you think? - Author: Alan Bradley

#20. But destiny grips us and, the next morning, in a soft winter rain, we buried the dead, paid silver coins, and then walked southward. We were a boy on the edge of being a grown man, a girl, and a dog, and we were going to nowhere. - Author: Bernard Cornwell

#21. They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover. - Author: Booth Tarkington

#22. The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it. - Author: Luke Evans

#23. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. - Author: Robert Baden-Powell

#24. I feel strongly that from my being a little lost boy with no family to becoming a man with two, everything was meant to happen just the way it happened. And I am profoundly humbled by that thought. - Author: Saroo Brierley

#25. It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too. - Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

#26. No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal. - Author: Robin Hobb

#27. Katie had a grandmother who was a man-eater and a father who was a lothario. What chance did she have of being decent and honest and kind? She'd kissed two girls and one boy in the space of a few weeks, so these things were clearly genetic. - Author: Jenny Downham

#28. There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man. - Author: Louis L'Amour

#29. What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. - Author: Gertrude Stein

#30. Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys. - Author: Agnes Smedley

#31. One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy. - Author: Iyanla Vanzant

#32. It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man-being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12. - Author: Karch Kiraly

#33. You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death. - Author: Anne Rice

#34. It takes a bee to get the honey out - Author: Arthur Guiterman

#35. I don't say anything unintentionally. - Author: Dominic Monaghan

#36. And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress. - Author: Leonard Woodcock

#37. So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a man. - Author: Mark Twain

#38. I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman. - Author: Patrick J. Adams

#39. I went up to the tower. I thought I might find the woman and the boy there, in bed together. Or the boy and his father, enjoying some quality time, a dead man and a mad boy chuckling and joshing and exchanging their stories of being dead and being mad. - Author: Stephen Gregory

#40. I'm only a little ashamed to say I outsprinted the boy. Old habits die hard. It's good to be faster than what's chasing you, but really the important thing in running away is to be faster than the slowest of those being pursued. Rule number one: be ahead of the next man. Or child. - Author: Mark Lawrence

#41. For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. - Author: Richard H. Baker

#42. Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#43. A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. - Author: Herbert Hoover