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Gray Hair Quotes

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.
- Cecelia Ahern

I always remembered what she looked like, the dried apple face, the silvery gray hair, the snapping blue eyes.
- Margaret Atwood

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

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
- George Bancroft

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
- Jean Paul

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
- Alison Bechdel

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
- Alison Bechdel

Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly.
He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But" with an exaggerated change of mood "I send her plenty of money, so she can pay to have them dyed!"
"I hope she beat you as a child," Onua grumbled.
- Tamora Pierce

Quintus..." Geryon mused. "Short gray hair, muscular, swordsman?"
"Yeah."
"Never heard of him,
- Rick Riordan

I get a glimpse of my assailant's face. Hard, with deep lines, a cruel mouth. Gray hair shaved almost to nonexistence, eyes so black they seem all pupils, a long, straight nose reddened by the freezing air. The powerful arm lifts again, his sights set on me. My hand flies to my shoulder, hungry for an arrow, but, of course, my weapons are stashed in the woods. I grit my teeth in anticipation of the next lash.
- Suzanne Collins

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
- Bill Cosby

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
- Hunter S Thompson

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

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

Norma looked at him, puzzled. "Someone else to do the mathematics?"
"Of course!" Holtzman brushed iron-gray hair away from his face and adjusted his white robe. "You're an *idea* person, like me. We want you to develop concepts, not bother with full-fledged implementation. You should not waste time performing tedious arithmetic. Any halfway-trained person can do that. It's what slaves are for.
- Brian Herbert

I'm getting gray hair in all sorts of crazy places. Like allover my carpet.
- Jarod Kintz

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

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

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

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
- Rabindranath Tagore

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
- Sextus Propertius

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
- Tim Robbins

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.
- Kenny Rogers

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

I wanted a good place to settle:
Cold Mountain would be safe.
Light wind in a hidden pine -
Listen close - the sound gets better.
Under it a gray haired man
Mumbles along reading Huang and Lao.
For ten years I havn't gone back home
I've even forgotten the way by which I came.
- Gary Snyder

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 thei same boy
my mother used to kiss.
- Mark Strand

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
- P G Wodehouse

I got a few gray hairs to testify to my wisdom, 2 grand babies & long. black dido named Harry..
- Zane

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