Quotes tagged ‘manhood’

“Well Max, here we are: Middle-aged man reaffirming his middle-aged manhood, and a terrified young woman with a father complex. What sort of script do you think we can make out of this?”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Diana Christensen, Faye Dunaway, imdb.com

“I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men.”

— Randall Wallace, Malcolm Wallace, Sean Lawlor, imdb.com

“Henry: Let me ask you something, Alexa. If you made a promise to a girl's dad that you would not see her anymore... would you consider that like a binding promise? Alexa: Absolutely. Henry: Yeah? Alexa: But then again, there are always ways around such things. Henry: Like? Alexa: For example. If I p…”

— George Wing, Henry Roth, Adam Sandler, imdb.com

“Know this: your caveman ideas about manhood are so over. Manhood today is about exfoliation, cheese courses, emotional honesty, and Paxil.”

— Rebecca Addelman, Kim Rosenstock, Robert Snow, Christian Magalhaes, Schmidt, Max Greenfield, imdb.com

“Salem: FREEZE! Don’t squirt that perfume, unless you want to be a boy who gets beaten up! Sabrina: Man, that was close! Salem: It’s not enough to look like a dude, you have to start thinking like a dude. Have you picked a name yet? Sabrina: Kirby? Salem: We’re back to getting beaten up here...”

— Nick Bakay, Salem Saberhagen (voice), Nick Bakay, imdb.com

“Troy: So you didn’t have a man around to show you what’s what? Lionel: Yup. Which is why I chose to be gay… kidding. That’s not how it works.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Lionel Higgins, DeRon Horton, imdb.com

“When you have children, you always have family. They will always be your priority, your responsibility. And a man, a man provides. And he does it even when he's not appreciated or respected or even loved. He simply bears up and he does it. Because he's a man.”

— Moira Walley-Beckett, Gus Fring, Giancarlo Esposito, imdb.com

“Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into Swansons.”

— Alan Yang, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do not always say things out loud, Nor write them down on paper. The people often hold Great thoughts in their deepest hearts And sometimes only blunderingly express them, Haltingly and s…”

— Langston Hughes, amazon.com

“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.”

— Pele, en.wikiquote.org

“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, bartleby.com

“Boys grow up believing that anger, empty aggression, and emotional unavailability are what make you a "strong" man. Don't teach your sons that shit, don't create more sociopaths.”

— NiMū, twitter.com

“I have a deep faith in the manhood of American men—and in American women.”

— Barry Goldwater, nytimes.com

“Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.”

— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org

“To me, a man is someone who is brave enough to love, and let himself be loved.”

— Louis Sachar, amazon.com

“Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com

“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

— Robert Jordan, amazon.com

“three-fifths of perfect manhood would be a high average even among white men”

— James Russell Lowell, theatlantic.com

“If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the U…”

— Amanda Marcotte transcribed by James Hamblin, theatlantic.com

“If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?”

— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.com