Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that's something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

I think probably everyone can relate to wanting to believe that your parents are one thing, and having to come to the realization that they might not be.

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

There comes a time in every man's life when he realises he will never be James Bond.

Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

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.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

A lot of boys will let me down but a real man wouldn't do it like that.

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.