Top 1200 Grown Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.

I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

I have been a Salman Khan fan since childhood and I have grown up watching his films.

I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

I have grown up watching Yash Chopra ji's films and am a fan of his work.

According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon a fundamental. The man of no ego is the man of no ideals. Then how can the ego be created? - the very energy is missing. The energy comes out of friction, conflict, struggle, will.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.

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

I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I have a family member who was in the foster system briefly, and so I've kind of grown up knowing about it myself.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.

Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.

It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises himself ... and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe's man ... a spectator of the world ... Third Schopenhauer's man ... voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

A lot of our fans have grown up, but they've stuck by us for the songs that dig a little deeper.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

My kids that are grown up, in their 20s, they all go to festivals. They have to behave, though. When it comes to things like that it's do as I say, not do as I do.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

I have grown to realize that anything is possible if you are fit - from wearing clothes of your choice to thinking positive.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

It's like I somehow snuck a seat at the grown-up table. I'm just trying not to get caught.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

My family has grown to love all of the Trumps because they are wonderful people willing to sacrifice much for their country.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

I can say that I'm a feminist and I try to be progressive and all that stuff. But I when I'm tired or when I've been thrown up on for the second time that I'm just a tired man trying to keep it together. I've had a lot of jobs over the years and people who make television - it's ridiculous how much they're lauded and paid. It's irresponsible and stupid. But it is hard work. It's very difficult to balance having three young kids and working like that. So I owe my wife an enormous debt of gratitude. I feel guilty that the kids had to be grown in her body and she hasn't been able to work.

To restate an old law - when a man bites a fish, that's good, but when a fish bites a man, that's bad. This is one way of saying it's all right if man kills an animal, but if an animal attacks man, the act is reprehensible.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.