The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs. — Hunter S. Thompson
My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it. — Brooke Burns
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”. — Joanna Russ
I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair. — Andre Agassi
You know you've made it when you can dye your hair blue. — Demi Lovato
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. — Victor Hugo
Short Gray Hair Quotes
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. — Chinese Proverbs
Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes. — Ilona Andrews
I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. — Olivia Wilde
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge. — Ivana Trump
Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now. — Hugh Hefner
Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy. — Lisa Kudrow
If you're betwixt and between, trust the one with red hair. — O.R. Melling
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. — Mark Oliphant
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. — Daniel Defoe
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. — Pindar
Gray Hair Image Quotes
Wrinkles mean you laughed, grey hair means you cared and scars mean you lived!
Wrinkles And Gray Hair Quotes
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity. — Reginald Heber
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
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense. — Tig Notaro
You can't control everything. Your hair was put on your head to remind you of that.
Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. — Unknown
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. — Mark Strand
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa
Salt in the air, sand in my hair
When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May. — Ann Rinaldi
Getting Gray Hair Quotes
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
You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing. — Sayings
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
I want daisies in my hair, green tea in my hand, and love in my heart
I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray. — Emily Haines
That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray. — Joe Girardi
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
Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old. — Chuck Palahniuk
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
Grey Hair Quotes
Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour. — Clark Gable
I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face. — David Cassidy
Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired? — Mackenzie Astin
When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't. — Marie Osmond
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. — Homer
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. — Charles Dickens
Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last. — Sophocles
The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. — William Wordsworth
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair. — George R. R. Martin
Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs. — John Zorn
White Hair Quotes
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. — Billie Holiday
Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white. — Jacob Zuma
Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.” “Leo, that’s Snow White,” Piper said. — Rick Riordan
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. — Honore de Balzac
Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. — T. S. Eliot
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me. — Maajid Nawaz
My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. — Shel Silverstein
I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age. — Carmen Dell'Orefice
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not. — Lord Byron
Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony. — Jacob Grimm
Gray Quotes
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' — Al Capone
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. — William Golding
How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray. — Demetri Martin
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. — Allen Klein
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — Thomas Gray
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Duke Ellington
A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit. — Kate Spade
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The effects of obesity on the brain mimic those of Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimaging data shows that obesity and Alzheimer’s disease are linked to gray matter atrophy in brain regions involved in attention and areas involved in reason, problem-solving, and comprehension. — Rhonda Patrick
Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon? — J.R. Ward
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — Oscar Wilde
Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty. — Henning Mankell
The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress. — Russell Simmons
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home. — L. Frank Baum
According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence. — Steven Pinker
The rules of war and business are the same. Victory and success are the same. In one it's life and/or death in the other it is success or failure. There really is little room for compromise of "gray matter". — Richard Marcinko
Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain. — Errol Morris
The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears. — Al Ries
Gray Days Quotes
Starry Starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land. — Don McLean
Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today. — Dr. Seuss
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. — Bill Watterson
Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen. — Edgar Allan Poe
The wind comes creeping, it calls to me to come go exploring. It sings of the things that are to be found under the leaves. It whispers the dreams of the tall fir trees. It does pipe the gentle song the forest sings on gray days. I hear all the voices calling me. I listen. But I cannot go. — Opal Whiteley
It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills. — Sherwood Anderson
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. — Paulo Coelho
I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs. — Andy Gray
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May? — Jimmy Walker
Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and gave him a kiss whenever he did something stupid. She must have kissed me a lot, Percy thought. — Rick Riordan
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs. — Ruth Gordon
Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair. — John Keats
I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty. — Eric Church
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. — Propertius
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white. — Alison Bechdel
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. — Alison Bechdel
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
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. — Charles Dickens
It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald. — Rodney Dangerfield
There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. — Isaiah
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore! — John Greenleaf Whittier
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. — Edward George BulwerLytton
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer. — Janet Fitch
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. — Rabindranath Tagore
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. — Philo
Gray hairs are death's blossoms. — English Proverbs
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
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Quintus..." Geryon mused. "Short gray hair, muscular, swordsman?" "Yeah." "Never heard of him. — Rick Riordan
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
I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show. — George Clooney
There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all. — Nora Ephron
Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. — Proverbs
I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! — Taylor Swift
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs — Proverbs
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft
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.
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children. — Lyman Abbott
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
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. — Tori Amos
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