Graying Quotes

#1. If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

Simmie Knox

#2. The graying hair on the back of his head was swept forward, a comical arrangement to disguise his bald spot. He had to be an academic, but not in the humanities or he would be more self-conscious. A firm science like chemistry, maybe.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Librarians were like guardian angels, with graying hair and beady eyes, magnified through reading glasses, and always read to recommend new literary windows to gaze through.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. One is reminded how often avant-gardism is a more polite label for the concerns of angry young men, sometimes graying young men.

Mary McLeod

#5. A sullied green "S" stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

Katherine McIntyre

#6. The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when you're graying.

Bobbi Brown

#7. He almost dared to say that her graying mustache gave her a military look, a more distinguished air: his private smile at the thought he had withheld ruffled her as much.

Elizabeth Taylor

#8. I see a huge monster, and his name is Religion, and I am finally brave enough to be angry with him, because he has stolen God away from me, making Him into a tame little puny judge with graying hair who raps his wooden mallet and squeaks out, You're forever guilty.

Mandy Steward

#9. Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

Michael Robotham

#10. Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

Groucho Marx

#11. His plans never worked out. In time,he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance, that this was who he was and who he would always be, a man with sand in his shoes in a world of mechanical laughter

Mitch Albom

#12. The rosy gleam of his lip, the fevered gleam of his eyes. There was not a line anywhere on his face, nothing creased or graying; all crisp. He was spring, golden and bright. Envious death would drink his blood, and grow young again.

Madeline Miller

#13. The porch light came on and Aunt B swung the door open. Middle-aged and stout, with graying hair rolled into a bun, she looked like she should be baking cookies, not ruling a brood of social deviants with a penchant for hysterical laughter and kinky sex.

Ilona Andrews

#14. A nine-year-old girl, just a kid, and yet there was something ageless in her eyes - not a child, not an adult - just an ongoing everness, that same pinprick of absolute lasting light that I see today in my own eyes as Timmy smiles at Tim from the graying photographs of that time.

Tim O'Brien

#15. Holden stopped next to the desk and turned around to look at the woman sitting on the couch. Graying hair, but good features and an athletic build. In a flophouse like this, that probably meant a prostitute reaching the end of her shelf life.

James S.A. Corey

#16. Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

Allan Kozinn

#17. In the past five years, C. diff has spread across the globe, helped in large part by air travel, the availability and frequent use of antibiotics, and the graying of the world's population.

J. Thomas LaMont

#18. He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

Patricia Cornwell

#19. Who knows CPR?" asks the one who grabbed Hodges. A roadie with a long graying ponytail steps forward. He's wearing a faded Judas Coyne tee-shirt, and his eyes are bright red. "I do, but man, I'm so stoned." "Try

Stephen King

#20. If I didn't laugh, I'd rip out my hair, one graying strand at a time.

Elsie Love

#21. The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

Peter L. Bergen

#22. Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#23. So what do we do now?" asked Alai. "The bugger war's over, and so's the war down there on Earth, and even the war here. What do we do now?" "We're kids," said Petra. "They'll probably make us go to school. It's a law. You have to go to school till you're seventeen." They all laughed at that.

Orson Scott Card

#24. You can only be twice someone's age once.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#25. Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

John Caudwell

#26. Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#27. He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him
How that could be - I thought the dead were souls,
He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious
That there's something the dead are keeping back?
Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back.

Robert Frost

#28. You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun ...

Anna Letitia Barbauld