John Steinbeck Quotes

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.