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Quotes About Transition

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
~ Adam Ant
When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.
~ Adam Sandler
I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.
~ Aldis Hodge
A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.
~ Alice Hoffman
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
~ Anatole France
All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.
~ Barack Obama
When men change, maybe Bond will change.
~ Barbara Broccoli
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.
~ Bill Cosby
Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
~ Bob Dylan
I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.
~ Bret McKenzie
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Man must endure his going hence.
~ C. S. Lewis
Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.
~ Chris Crutcher
It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.
~ Donny Osmond
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
~ Edward Young
Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'
~ Eric Close
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
~ Euripides
Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.
~ Freya Stark
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
~ Gary Cole
I was a great many far cries from myself.
~ Gary Lutz