Becoming A Man Quotes

“You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Some boys grow up to be great men, some grow up to be great fathers, and while most grow up to be neither, none grow up to be both.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . .”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“You want to sit here in your little fantasy, your little suburban womb. With your laptop, in your little clubhouse, rubbing oil on your guns and congratulating yourself on how brave and strong you turned out to be in the stupid zombie war fantasies that play in your head. You're not a man. You're a boy. All of you. You're little boys because you choose to stay little boys. You don't become a man until you wake up one day and realize that today the world needs you to be a man. Josh, so help me, if you don't step up, and become a man right now, people will die. Tonight. Not tomorrow.”
― David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders

“Lover winds a guitar string tight enough to slice your fingertip when you strum. It’s the guitar beat against the belly of the bluesman, sitting ugly on a stool, legs open in front of everyone. Lover is Winslow with sun blinding and wind sticking dust to your cheekbones when you peel out from the crater. The swirling force of cream stirring itself in a reheated cup of coffee steamed by exhaustion. The hands that stripped him bare in his sleep, played his hormones like a mean, magic riff 'til he woke up wet and high inside his bones.”
― Laurie Perez, Virga in Death Valley

“When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives.”
― Carew Papritz

“They might curse you, even despise you for doing so, but it took strong measures to ensure that a boy lived long enough to become a man.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden

“After all, we emerged from the mud some millions of years ago, and although we got rid of our scales, there is still a long way to go before we become really human — but one of these days we shall triumph over our limitations, over the harsh biological law which has been imposed upon us. Our friend was right: it’s an inhuman law, and it’s high time to change it.Then all that will be left of the infirmity and the challenge of being a man will be one more cast skin by the side of our
track.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“You can’t make men out of shadows because shadows hold darkness. You create from light to bring truth.”
― Dominic Riccitello