Quotes About Wisdom

I study all the greats.

I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

It's always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they've seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we've earned their applause.

I'm sprouting more than one wonderful grey hair.

Getting a grey beard's not cool.

I have been grey since I was 20 years old!

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Every experience makes you grow.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

It took me a long time to grow up.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

Growing old is not growing up.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.