Gray Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. View quote
Anthony Burgess
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. View quote
George Steiner
Gray hair is God's graffiti. View quote
Bill Cosby
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
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. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. View quote
William Butler Yeats
There's so much gray to every story-nothing is so black and white. View quote
Lisa Ling
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. View quote
William Golding
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. (Helen Hunt Jackson)
All theory, dear friend, is gray but the precious tree of life is green. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. View quote
George Bancroft
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day. View quote
Walter Scott
These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss. View quote
Mark Strand
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy. View quote
Loretta Napoleoni
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. View quote
Allen Klein
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
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)
This gray spirit yearning in desire; To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit. View quote
Norman Mailer
Earth, left silent by the wind of night, Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height. View quote
William Morris