Quotes About Manhood

The small farm, a historian observed, was an unsurpassed school for boyhood but an intellectual prison for manhood.

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

Women have this deep instinctive need to build a man up as a man. I suppose this is because real men become fewer and fewer, and we are frightened, trying to create a man.

The child, level with the kneeling man, had moved nearer, his eyes wide, his face uplifted as if to embrace him. Before he could touch him, Lymond rose, and, looking down, smiled. 'Keep thy kisses. Thou art almost a man; and a man chooses to kiss only the persons he loves. Then thy kiss will be a big gift indeed.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members…. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

The first claim of the Bible, then, setting the stage for marriage, is that manhood and womanhood are not our own cultural constructs. Human concepts are too small and artificial a context for the glory of our sexuality. Manhood and womanhood find their true meaning in the context of nothing less than the heavens and the earth, the cosmos, the universe, the entire creation. That is the first claim of the biblical love story.

Znam, Kulgane, ali sam u skorije vreme bio toliko rastresen da je bes naprosto proklju?ao u meni kada me je Ralf onako izvre?ao. Pa, to što priznaješ sopstveni udeo dobar je znak da postaješ muškarac. Mnogi de?aci bi pokušali da se pravdaju, prebacuju krivicu na drugog ili pozivaju?i se na razloge ?asti.

It's not the first time in his life he's felt like a man.

The error was not yours, Somerled, Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.

You were still trying to figure out what to do with all the rage and lust and anger that sparked up like a forest fire for no reason. Will had been exactly like them at that age—so damn desperate for someone to show him how to be a man.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

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.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.