Quotes of Gray - somelinesforyou

“ Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ”

- Anthony Burgess

“ It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball. ”

- Don Drysdale

“ What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard! ”

- John Oliver Killens

“ Worry — a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ”

- George Steiner

“ The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ The photographer's palette is a thousand shades of gray. ”

- H. E. Clark

“ We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. ”

- Edward Dahlberg

“ Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. ”

- Grace Paley

“ There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige. ”

- Hanna Holborn Gray

“ Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can't see yet. ”

- Robin Gross

“ It looks like it's going to be Arnold Schwarzenegger or Gray Davis. You got a robot from the future or a robot with no future. ”

- Jay Leno

“ It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. ”

- John Mahoney

“ Every time you walk into a room, it's, like, is there a booger hanging out? Is there a wrinkle here, a gray hair there? It makes you psycho. ”

- Mark McGrath

“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ All cats are gray in the dark. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ”

- Duke Ellington

“ Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. ”

- Bible

“ The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance — all strewn with crumpled playbills. ”

- Henry James

“ By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ”

- George Bancroft

“ Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose. From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf. ”

- Susan Coolidge

“ Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. ”

- Unknown

“ Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect; I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality. ”

- Sir Peter Hall
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