Top 100 Quotes About Gray Hair
#2. I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and some times I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.
J.D. Salinger
#4. Everyone in this house
has gray hair, walks with a cane,
visits the graveyard
Matsuo Basho
#5. Sometimes it's the harder relationships, the complicated ones you have to fight and claw for that have staying power. May give you gray hair and bruises,but,you know.
Sharla Lovelace
#7. Why is it, he thinks, that women find gray hair attractive? Perhaps it reminds them of death, and they find that exciting. Maybe they find it appealing to consider the perishability of their men.
Chris Greenhalgh
#8. The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#9. I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
Ed Emberley
#10. His eyes were hazel, his gray hair tousled, and he wore the look of a man who had seen too much, too soon, and been forced to deal with idiots all too often.
Alan Dean Foster
#11. For guys, growing older is fine. Gray hair and wrinkles aren't considered a bad thing.
Nigel Barker
#13. Having gray hair doesn't matter
but having gray matter matters.
James Tate
#14. I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.
Kenny Rogers
#15. One day, you look in the mirror, & see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived. And you think, "how did this happen so fast"?
Jodi Picoult
#16. The paradox of life; I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. He is obviously proud of his shock of curly gray hair; it is the symbol of his aging masculinity. This is not a hairstyle; it is a world view.
Pierre Lemaitre
#18. I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
Alber Elbaz
#19. I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
Rachel Bilson
#21. 29 The glory of young men is their strength, but w the splendor of old men is their gray hair.
Anonymous
#22. If a sweet dumpling took human form, it would look just like Aunt Tildy, right down to the flour-dusting of her gray hair.
Rae Carson
#23. Don't men in the South have gray hair? she asked.
Yes, but their mothers are blonde.
Maryln Schwartz
#25. Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.
Eugene H. Peterson
#27. I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.
Chris Isaak
#28. Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another.
Hermann Hesse
#31. Time moves in the Amish community without leaving much of a mark. Gray hair grows on some, wrinkles crawl across the faces of others, but the buildings stay mostly the same.
Michelle Eastwood
#32. You don't need a long beard to be a sage;
you need to be teachable.
You don't need gray hair to be wise;
you need to be sensible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!" She giggled. "Think I'll be fat and have gray hair?"
"I sure hope so," her father said, laughing himself.
Sharon M. Draper
#34. I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
Patricia Riggen
#35. This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.
Elizabeth Goudge
#36. I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made ... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway ... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie 'Singles.' And I always say, 'How old are you?'
Campbell Scott
#37. Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
Alison Bechdel
#38. You know, I found a gray hair the other day. I almost broke the sound barrier rushing to the pharmacy to get some dye. Beth snorted. Oh please! You're a blonde-no one can see gray hair up there. Now, you get one down under, and then you can panic.
Jenn McKinlay
#39. Hey!" I said, indignation filling me. "I'm immortal! Doesn't that mean I won't get saggy boobs and gray hair? Because if it doesn't mean that, I want a refund -
Katie MacAlister
#40. The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.
J.K. Rowling
#41. People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.
Andie MacDowell
#42. Quintus ... " Geryon mused. "Short gray hair, muscular, swordsman?"
"Yeah."
"Never heard of him,
Rick Riordan
#43. Audrey Griffin's eyes were wild, and she had a big smile as usual, and she was shaking a piece of paper at us. Her gray hair was coming out of its ponytail, and she was wearing clogs, and under her down vest you could see the pleats on her jeans bulging out. It was hard not to watch.
Maria Semple
#44. Woe is Merit, the immortal vampire with the never-gray hair and long legs and hot blond boyfriend.
Chloe Neill
#45. Each gray hair still seemed like a weevil in a flower bed.
Jess Walter
#46. You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
Tim Robbins
#47. He was quite portly, with a profusion of gray hair, and small blue eyes which age had robbed of much of their brightness but none of their penetration.
Kate Chopin
#48. No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
Sextus Propertius
#49. 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
Carine Roitfeld
#50. James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.
Edward Hirsch
#51. The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At
Leo Tolstoy
#52. I've been embracing gray hair since ... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
Taylor Hicks
#53. My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.
Tig Notaro
#54. Gained a little wisdom, did you?" "Age and experience do that for a person." "True. There should be some reward for creaking bones and gray hair." He
Grace Draven
#55. Can't you just see it? Can't you see us with gray hair, sitting at those late night football games. I'll be the dad with one eye on my football playing sons, and the other on our daughter, who if she looks anything like you, I will need to carry a gun to fight off all of those horny teenage boys.
Jennifer Foor
#57. It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison Bechdel
#58. Oh shit," a super-deep, gravelly voice said. The voice came from a man behind the book counter, and he was the one not smiling. He had long, gray hair pulled back in a braid, a red, rolled bandana wrapped around his forehead and a thick gray beard.
Kristen Ashley
#59. Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all
Dianne Reeves
#60. flaps and buttons. She concealed her gray hair
Victor Hugo
#61. An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.
Akhil Sharma
#62. Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.
Jennifer Egan
#63. What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.
Edward Everett
#64. It was love, after all,
that rubbed the skins from their gray cheeks,
crippled their fingers,
snarled their hair, brown or dull gold.
Hate would merely have smashed them.
Margaret Atwood
#65. Will," she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. "Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.
Cassandra Clare
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I do wonder why people hate their grey hair so much! I think grey hair is a gift from the moon! When the moon laughs, her eyes produce tears of joy that fall to the earth and onto the tops of people's heads!
C. JoyBell C.
#70. He was handsome. One might even say he was beautiful, with blond hair, gray eyes, and a youthful appearance. His body, although less than six feet tall, was lean and muscular beneath his black suit.
Sylvain Reynard
#71. Take you picture off the wall
And carry it away
Dye your hair the shades of fall
Don't let time turn it to gray
Don't think of me, I'll be all right
Seems I've always done okay
Just give me one more kiss good night
For the last time, turn away
Emily Ruskovich
#72. Martin nodded, his head snapping up and down. He was wearing baggy gray sweatpants and no shirt. His torso was soft and undeveloped and covered with a thick growth of fine hair. He squinted against the bright morning sun. Yeah, sure. What do you want?
Robert Crais
#73. I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#74. My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#75. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
L. Frank Baum
#76. Mrs. Dower was gray. Her clothes, her hair, and the cloud above her head were all a shade of dark gray. With every breath she seemed to expel an invisible vapot of gloom.
Ellery Adams
#78. Yes, red-to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all Queen Anne-My Queen Anne-queen of my heart and life and home.
L.M. Montgomery
#79. There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
William McFee
#80. Forget black and white and try on gray. In hair color, wardrobe or life choices, it may feel more enlivening than you imagine.
Gina Greenlee
#81. Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others.
Steve Maraboli
#82. So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#84. Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through.
"They're not gray," Mom barks at me as she opens her door. "They're strands of glittery goodness.
Margaret McHeyzer
#85. The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.
Emmylou Harris
#86. Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".
Anderson Cooper
#87. Daredevil nature as a young man. When I read what William Roth had written, I sighed. So that was where my own two boys had gotten the trait that was turning their mother's hair gray.
Katherine Paterson
#88. His eyes are somewhere between gray and blue, and his hair is somewhere between brown and blond, and I am somewhere between hostile and attracted.
Emery Lord
#90. There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
George Clooney
#91. If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over - and then what?
Marie Howe
#92. That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray.
Joe Girardi
#93. O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
Lin Yutang
#94. I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.
Irene Cara
#95. Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.
M.J. Rose
#96. Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.
Mary Collyer
#97. I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.
Neal Shusterman
#98. He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there.
Victor Hugo
#99. If youth was sold in a bottle of hair dye, we would all get in line.
Jan Rogers
#100. The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.
Stephenie Meyer
