J. R. Moehringer Quotes

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

I like guys who, no matter what, are men.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

How can I be a man if there is no role model?

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

I like being able to be a man.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.