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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• I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

  Christian Bale

  Jobs, Mean, Men

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• I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!

  Bill Geist

  Men, Long, Dancing

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• I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Jobs, Men, Names

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• It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.

  Shawn Stockman

  Song, Men, Done

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• Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide TV. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that.

  Chael Sonnen

  Men, Guy, Legs

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• There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Men, Down And

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.148, Macmillan

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• I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.

  Thom Yorke

  Morning, Cat, Men

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• I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Mother, Father, Book

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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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• "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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• If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me

  Charlie Hunnam

  Mother, Father, Boys

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Nora Roberts (2008). “The Pagan Stone”, p.201, Penguin

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• Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian grinned. "Exactly.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Men, Blood, Too Much

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• Grown men do not need leaders.

  Edward Abbey

  Leadership, Maturity, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• But the fevers are on me now, the virus mad to ravage my last fifty T cells. It's hard to keep the memory at full dazzle, with so much loss to mock it. Roger gone, Craig gone, Cesar gone, Stevie gone. And this feeling that I'm the last one left, in a world where only the ghosts still laugh. But at least they're the ghosts of full-grown men, proof that all of us got that far, free of the traps and the lies. And from that moment on the brink of summer's end, no one would ever tell me again that men like me couldn't love.

  Paul Monette

  Love, Summer, Memories

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• As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Boys, Men, Years

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• How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

  Stephen King

  Men, Years, Sick

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.237, Anchor

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• There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

  Henry Twells

  Time, Children, Men

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  Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

  Nick Offerman

  Life Changing, Men, Fishing

  "Fictional character: Ron Swanson". Parks and Recreation (TV Series). Telethon, www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.

  Willie Morris

  Dog, Taken, Eye

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.3, Vintage

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• How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Country, Baby, Men

  "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 188), 1950.

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