- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
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- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man City is one of the best clubs in the world. I knew that something big was happening here. I wanted to be a part of it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020