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• The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Appreciate, Greek, Tradition

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.254, Delphi Classics

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• In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,
  The spectral Owl doth dwell;
  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,
  But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!
  Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--
  All mock him outright, by day:
  But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,
  The boldest will shrink away!
  O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,
  Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!

  Bryan Procter

  Fall, Sunshine, Night

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• According to today's Los Angeles Times, Gray Davis now gets negative job ratings from white people, black people, Latinos, Republicans, Independents and even Democrats. Say what you want about the guy but he's a uniter!

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, White, People

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• My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Son, Cutting

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• Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• 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

  Hair, People, Twenties

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

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• The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Echoes, Law

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.431

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• I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

  Boy George

  London, Revolutionary, Punk

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• So, if they're coming in and having to do scenes that involve nudity or sexuality, in some way, the utmost important thing is that everyone feels comfortable and safe. If there's any gray area, that's going to be a problem.

  Michael Sheen

  Important, Safe, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Children, Eye, Hair

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• The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

  Arthur Symons

  Sunset, Autumn, Air

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• I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

  John Millington Synge

  Stars, Flower, Bird

  John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Clouds, Sky, Way

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1894). “When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls”

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• Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Fashion, Men, Phoenix

  "Beauty in This Iron Age". Poem by Philip Jose Farmer, originally published in Orma McCormick and Nan Gerding "Starlanes: International Quarterly of Science Fiction Poetry", Issue 11 (Fall 1953); republished in Philip Jose Farmer "Pearls From Peoria" edited by Paul Spiteri, 2006.

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• Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.

  Steven Spielberg

  Hair, Pubic Hair, Torture

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• There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

  Jaron Lanier

  Theory, Dreary

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book edited by John Brockman, 2003.

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• Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Stress, War, Men

  "Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom" by Andrei Sakharov, ("The Threat to Intellectual Freedom"), www.sakharov-center.ru. 1968.

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• Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

  Roger Zelazny

  White, Yesterday, Black

  Roger Zelazny (1981). “The Last Defender of Camelot”, Pocket

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• Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Hands, Nurse

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1260, 谷月社

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• I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

  Kurt Sutter

  Gratitude, Successful, Color

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• On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Kings, Father, Son

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.61

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• Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wind, Sea, Sky

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.246, tredition

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• 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

  Stars, Sadness, Silence

  1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems, 'Hyperion', bk.1, l.1-5.

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• They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

  Antoni Tapies

  Wrestling, Color, Painting

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• There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray walls. But we can't see it when we stay at home. There is so much sky above our roof. Is the door so old that it won't open, or are we at home because we're afraid of catching a chill?

  Francoise Hardy

  Dream, Wall, Home

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