Quotes About Manhood

I am a man who occasionally aspires to things beyond the belly and the phallus. I am not the saint the Buddhists think me to be, and I am not the hero out of legend. I am a man who knows much fear, and who occasionally feels guilt.

You're owed a refund on your manhood.

He was a man. He should have acted more like one - thought about how all that self-indulgence might affect his daughter, if not his wife.

Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

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.

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.

Grief and remorse, compassion and duty - all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters. 'Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?' Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. 'Don't you?' he repeated, but got no answer to his question.

Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

Boys, men, she said. They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

How is it that you're such an expert on home pregnancy kits?" You're asking that question of an Italian stallion like myself? The women call me 'sperm of thunder'. I don't dare stand too close for fear I may impregnate them with just a whiff of my manhood.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

Ch 3: How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candor in the story of early manhood which leaves out of account the homesickness for nursery morality. The regrets and resolutions of amendments, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity.

Today I have only reality, and I cannot play with that … Poor child exiled in his manhood! Why did I have to grow up?

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I want to figure out myself as a man.

Everyone's more vulnerable than they seem, and I think men are more vulnerable. Once you get close to a man, the whole thing's a facade anyway. I think manhood is fragile.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares...