Gray Hair Quotes:

It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.

- Rodney Dangerfield

source: "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Hair, Gray, Gray Hair

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

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Humorous, Hair, Age, Jeeves, Guillotine

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Time, Heart, Hair, Gray Hair

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

- Bill Cosby

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, God, Humor, 50th Birthday, Gray Hair

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

source: Source: radio.com

topic: Honesty, Thinking, Hair, Gray Hair

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

- Jean Paul

topic: Time, Moon, Light, Gray Hair

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

- George Bancroft

source: George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.75

topic: Respect, Hair, Envy, Baldness, Gray Hair

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

topic: Love, Kissing, Hair, Lyric Poetry, Do You Love Me

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

- Propertius

topic: Hair, Rivals, Glory, Sure Love, Gray Hair

As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Senior, Morning, Jobs, Life After High School, Morning Dew

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

- Alison Bechdel

topic: Black And White, Drawing, Hair, Gray Hair

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

- Joseph Parry

topic: Friendship, Wine, Wrinkles, New Friendship, Eternal Friendship

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

- Alison Bechdel

topic: Character, Hair, Giving, Gray Hair

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

topic: Hair, Color, People, Highlighting, Gray Hair

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

- Tim Robbins

topic: Hair, Acting, Get Money, Gray Hair

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

topic: Respect, Hair, Gray, Gray Hair

When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself.

- Linus Pauling

source: "Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker". Book edited by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager, 2001.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Hair, Think For Yourself, Gray Hair

I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well.

- Regina Belle

topic: Sports, Blessing, Men, Gray Hair

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.146

topic: Light, Hair, Gone, Evermore, Gray Hair

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

- Tig Notaro

topic: Wrinkles, Hair, Age, Gray Hair

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

- Charles Lamb

topic: Hair, Long, Age, Gray Hair

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

- Kenny Rogers

topic: Hair, Looks, Said, Gray Hair

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

topic: Wise, Grandma, Eye, Four Generations, Gray Hair

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

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.118, Courier Corporation

topic: Nature, Character, Hair, Gray Hair, Shambles

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Vanity, Hair, Gray, Gray Hair

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

- Thomas Browne

topic: Art, Philosophy, Hair, Gray Hair

What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Dream, Hair, Made, Combs, Gray Hair

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

topic: Angel, Hair, Guy, Gray Hair

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

topic: Hair, Environmental, Age, Gray Hair

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

source: Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.122, Knopf

topic: Mother, Kissing, Boys, Darkening, Gray Hair

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.

topic: Fall, Autumn, August, Summer To Fall, Foliage

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

topic: Maturity, Hair, Greed, Gray Hair

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

topic: Home, Past, Hair, Peeling, Old Movie

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

- Rick Riordan

topic: Hair, Yeah, Gray, Swordsman, Gray Hair

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

topic: Hair, Voice, Soul, Grinning, Gray Hair

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Hair, Age, Tongue, Gray Hair

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

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 213), 1895.

topic: Lying, Flower, Writing, Gray Hair

When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.

- Joseph Parker

topic: Children, Wrinkles, Hair, Inquirers, Kneeling

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Wrinkles, Hair, Gray, Gray Hair

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

source: Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.56, Hachette UK

topic: Wise, Children, Husband, Gray Hair

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.' And I always say, 'How OLD are you?'

- Campbell Scott

source: Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. February 28, 2009.

topic: Hair, People, Twenties, Gray Hair

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

topic: Mean, Hair, Hey, Indignation, Refunds

There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before. You can be really good-looking in your twenties but feel miserable, and people just sort of walk away.

- Norman Reedus

source: Source: www.gq.com

topic: Good Life, People, Feel Good, Gray Hair

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

topic: Hair, Needs, Bishops, Craze, Headmasters

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

topic: Hair, Self, Giving, Gray Hair

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

source: Tamora Pierce (2015). “Wild Magic”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, Silly, Hair, Exaggerated, Gray Hair

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

topic: Men, Hair, Long, Barmen, Gray Hair

...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

- Will Schwalbe

topic: Teacher, Cancer, School, Darfur, Oldest Friends

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

topic: Thinking, Hair, Age, Uptown, Gray Hair

When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.

- Joe Budden

source: Source: djbooth.net

topic: Dream, Crazy, Apples, Apples And Oranges, Gray Hair