Quotes about Becoming a Man

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. Votes: 7

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting. Votes: 7

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man. Votes: 7

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. Votes: 7

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. Votes: 5

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage. Votes: 5

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of. Votes: 3

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. Votes: 3

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 he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters - members all of the same family - are able at last to live in peace. Votes: 3

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. Votes: 2

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man. Votes: 2

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. Votes: 2

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. Votes: 2

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. Votes: 2

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs. Votes: 2

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better. Votes: 2

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man. Votes: 2

I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever. Votes: 2

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. Votes: 2

Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems. Votes: 2

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man. Votes: 2

I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible. Votes: 2

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president but maybe becoming one of the truly great presidents of American history. Votes: 2

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older. Votes: 2

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man. Votes: 2

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself. Votes: 0

The man just is, but clothes are becoming. Votes: 0

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. Votes: 0

Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance Votes: 0

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. Votes: 0

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Votes: 0

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man. Votes: 0

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. Votes: 0

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. Votes: 0

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. Votes: 0

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself. Votes: 0

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. Votes: 0

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening, Votes: 0

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. Votes: 0

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man. Votes: 0

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so. Votes: 0

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.] Votes: 0

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life? Votes: 0

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. Votes: 0

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you. Votes: 0

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor. Votes: 0

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian! Votes: 0

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. Votes: 0

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker. Votes: 0

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one. Votes: 0

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature. Votes: 0

[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object. Votes: 0

But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work. Votes: 0

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. Votes: 0

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse. Votes: 0

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man. Votes: 0

In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character. Votes: 0