Grown Man – Quotes

Grown men do not

Grown men do not need leaders. Edward Abbey

There are some places

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

Nothing in progression can

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. Edmund Burke

Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried. Fernando Sabino

The State insists that,

The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig…The incidence of this enactment is to reduce … Read more

Grown men, he told

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this. Douglas Adams

A grown man, weeping,

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see. Dick Cavett

If your little savage

If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother. Denis Diderot

Very often, I don’t

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

There are many things

There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man’s or woman’s old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has … Read more