Quotes of: Grown-man Keyword

The poor man and the rich man do not play together.

Ghanaian

You don’t get to tell me how you think I’m going to feel or assume what I’m going to do. If you don’t want to tell me this secret of yours, then by all means, don’t tell me. I will never force you to do something that you don’t want to do...

Falling Petals: A Story About First Chances

It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes an...

Me Before You

There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and u...

The Pursuit of God

I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her conversation; it was merry, rather small; by turns I saw vivacity, vanity, coquetry, look out through its irid, but I watched in vain for a...

The Professor

Accepting experiences is through the understanding that everybody was born equal, no labels, no social status, no preconceptions just born a little person preparing to grow-up on what ever path is grown from development, environment and/or otherwise ...

Paul Isaacs

The rich man plans for tomorrow, the poor man for today.

Chinese

A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.

Greek

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

Cancer Ward

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

Foundation and Empire

Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up." "Had to happen sometime," I say.

Freakhouse

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

A Game of Thrones

Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.

Beyond All Dreams

An infant's smile was the greatest promise that the world would go on, no matter how much the grown-ups mucked around with it.

Baby for Keeps

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

The Brothers Karamazov

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

The Book of Merlyn

There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.

Breathing Underwater

I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.

Al Sharpton

In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice.

Dominique Moceanu

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field.

Glen Duncan

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

Karen Thompson Walker