Quotes About Growing From A Boy To A Man

#1. A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Herbert Hoover

#2. Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Arnold Bennett

#3. The attitudes of many police organizations were extremely negative to the prospect of Rap, and many officials weren't afraid to say that they were against it. To them, Rappers were just criminals waiting to get caught.

Assata Shakur

#4. It is with some regret that I here besmirch the nobility of our airmen, but boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

Bill Burr

#6. 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

#7. If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Junot Diaz

#10. If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

John Eldredge

#11. Lord, but did he grow up nice.

Kelly Moran

#12. She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

Stephen King

#13. He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

Tanith Lee

#14. No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both ...

Carew Papritz

#15. If you write a line of only zeroes, is still nothing

Ayn Rand

#16. But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man's journey towards his future.

Madeline Claire Franklin

#17. In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

Tom Morello

#18. There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.

Rebecca Stead

#19. What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Gertrude Stein

#20. The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

Pablo Neruda

#21. The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

Harold Holzer

#22. Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

Michael Hussey

#23. Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Carew Papritz