Grown Man Quotes - Page 2

• Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Funny, Men, Years

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.

  Aldous Huxley

  Stars, Hate, Men

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  Zakk Wylde

  Beer, Men, Rocks

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• I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

  Howard Gossage

  Men, Long, Advertising

  Howard Luck Gossage (1995). “The book of Gossage: a compilation, which includes "Is there any hope for advertising?"”

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• My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.

  Karch Kiraly

  Dad, Men, Talking

  Source: www.stack.com

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• I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

  Randall Robinson

  School, Men, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

  Suge Knight

  Running, Men, Trying

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• I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose.

  Immortal Technique

  Men, Thinking, Support

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

  Dick Cavett

  Men, Tough, Weeping

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• Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

  Brad Pitt

  Makeup, Men

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13б 1997.

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• I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete.

  Karch Kiraly

  Sports, Volleyball, Beach

  Source: www.stack.com

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• It was really an exciting time trying to find my way from being a boy to becoming a man—being toe to toe and eye to eye with grown men, even though I was only 11 or 12.

  Karch Kiraly

  Eye, Men, Boys

  Source: www.stack.com

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• What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

  Paul Gascoigne

  Men, Two, England

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• Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

  Aziz Ansari

  Fun, Men, Keys

  "Fictional character: Aziz". "Human Giant/ Let's Go", (Episode 2), 2007.

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• I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Country, New York, Men

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

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• "Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

  Guy Garvey

  Men, Singing, Arms

  Source: www.spin.com

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• There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Escaping, Ink

  James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.44, Wildside Press LLC

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• Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Men, Play

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales”, p.6, Modern Library

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• I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

  M. Ageyev

  Dream, Men, Night

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• Cause even grown men need understanding.

  John Wayne

  Men, Understanding, Needs

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.61, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

  Andre Maurois

  Spring, Writing, Men

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• Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Boys, Men

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• You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mean, Men, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I had grown men cry. I mean, literally.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Men, Cry

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.

  Jimmy Carter

  College, Men, Pigs

  "Carter is upbeat about peace talks in Mideast WORDS OF WISDOM The former president offers encouragement to new U.S. envoy - and the rest of us. Q&A". Interview with Bill Lambrecht, www.stltoday.com. February 1, 2009.

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