Quotes About Manhood

The longing and impatience of boyhood give way to the longing and discontent of manhood, and the future you anticipate is still just around the corner.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Suddenly, it seemed to me an eternity since I had last seen Mam, and I cried. "What is wrong with the boy?" the monk asked. "It is his first day out," Dad fumbled. "Cheer up," the monk said to me. "You are becoming a man." "I am hungry," I told him. "That is one way of becoming a man," he concluded.

A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.

There sit our sons", he said, "young, healthy and handsome, the flower of the Xhosa tribe, the pride of our nation. We are here to promise them manhood, but it is an empty promise because we Xhosas and all black South Africans, are a conquered people.

Every expression of manhood is a reassertion of this cock privilege. All men are male supremacists. Gay men are no exception to the maxim.

Apart from the principles of the Bible, you cannot be the man, the husband, and the father you may be.

They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

Such were the contradictions of manhood, Ferguson discovered. Your heart could be broken, but your gonads kept telling you to forget about your heart.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

One can understand that there are more methodical arguments for revolution, but few that are more persuasive than this one: it takes leisure to be a man.

His black eyes found mine over the licking flames, and my heart jumped. He was a moran now. That's what had changed—he'd become a man. I

Or perhaps I'll learn the difference between a boy's dreams and a man's." He paused, and then said, "When I marry, my father will live again in my sons." He

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth

He's a guy. He has built in testosterone issues.

What a torture to hear that a life had been available to me that I had not been man enough to live.

“I am about to go the way of all the earth. So be strong and prove yourself a man.