Gray Quotes - Page 14

• I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

  Brooke Astor

  Jobs, War, Nurse

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• I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Kids, Hands

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• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Giving Up, Talking

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• The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Rats, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.115, David M Gross

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• Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

  William Ernest Henley

  Death, Summer, Mother

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life And Death, Friendly, Medical

  William Ernest Henley (2016). “A Book of Verses”, p.1, Read Books Ltd

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• We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.

  Marie Osmond

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Gone Away, Gone

  Rosie O'Donnell (2001). “Rosie”

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• Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.

  Linda Gray

  Home, Florida, President

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• In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

  David Baldacci

  Guy, Thrillers, Gray Area

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• The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Color, Orange

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• Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

  Alexis Denisof

  Believe, Reality, Shade

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• I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

  Frank Gehry

  Moving, Men, Lectures

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Black And White, Thinking, Wish

  Interview with Norah Piehl, www.bookreporter.com. May 14, 2010.

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• John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Black And White, Thinking, Issues

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• On a cold and gray Chicago morning another little baby child is born in the ghetto, and his Mama cries.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Morning, Children

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• Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

  Ani DiFranco

  Goodbye, Air, Sky

  Song: Fire Door

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• Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.

  Rod Stewart

  Lonely, Prayer, Gay

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• But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

  Rene Dubos

  Boredom, Goal, Creative

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• 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

  Grief, Men, Hair

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Black And White, People, World

  "Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.

  Elvis Presley

  Animal, Two, Bye

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• Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Years, Sky

  Peter Brian Medawar (1979). “Advice to a young scientist”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hair, Red, Busy

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wall, Rain, Heart

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