“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”

“poetry in some form is necessary to all—save, perhaps, to those who are content to live upon bread alone.”

Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) American writer and poet

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

“Each day another boy and girl sets foot into this world
One reaches out to touch the sky
One never learns to fly.”

Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter

“Ooh, little boy, in between changing fathers.
Little girl has to live without Mother.
They don't understand why they seem not to need them,
Although all they need is a loving hand.”

Amber (1970) Dutch born German singer, songwriter, label owner and executive producer

“Man can not live by bread alone… he must have peanut butter.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

“What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.”

Oriana Fallaci book A Man

“I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”

Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer

“A man is only a mature boy. The theatre widens as he ascends.”

David Jewett Waller, Sr. (1815–1893) Pennsylvanian minister and civic leader