Robbie Fowler Quotes

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.

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

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

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

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

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

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I'm totally growing up.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

Being a kid is so much more fun than being an adult. I think that's the crux of it. I think men are just less inclined to grow up because it's much more fun being a child.

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

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

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

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.

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.

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

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Men expect too much, do too little.