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"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals." »Homer
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"As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The hammer shatters glass but forges steel." »Assyrian Proverb
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"In the night all cats are gray." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"All cats are gray in the dark." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on." »Anderson H. Scruggs
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"gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom." »Greek Proverb
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"gray skies are just clouds passing over." »Duke Ellington
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"There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"There is no more time, the gray cat is sleeping on the gutter morning noon and night." »Nicolas Grenier
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"Sorrows are like thunder-clouds: in the distance they look black, over our heads, hardly gray." »Richter
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Who can tell Men?s hearts? The purest comprehend Such contradictions, and can blend The force to bear, the power to feel, The tender bud, the tempered steel." »Hindu Drama
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"When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green." »Johann von Goethe
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." »Henry David Thoreau
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"No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold." »Vladimir Mayakovsky
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"On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." »Chuck Norris
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"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf. (to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band in Wales)" »Prince Phillip
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"Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel." »Andrew Schneider
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from steel Beach" »John Varley
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"Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage." »Aristophanes
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"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him" »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray." »Doug Hall
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