Gray Quotes
695 quotes by 549 authors
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The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild…
— Richard Russo
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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…
— Tori Amos
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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.…
— Ann Rinaldi
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To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes,…
— Jerry Spinelli
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..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it,…
— Salvador Plascencia
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I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the…
— Barack Obama
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She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the…
— Isabel Allende
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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,…
— Katie MacAlister
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And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous…
— Che Guevara
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Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that…
— Che Guevara
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It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"…
— Cassandra Clare
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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering…
— Ayn Rand
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you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you…
— Margaret Weis
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
— Gloria Steinem
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There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me...
— Knut Hamsun
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I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the…
— Christopher Golden
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Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
— Sylvia Plath
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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…
— Janet Fitch
Who Wrote These Gray Quotes
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