Pale Gray

Famous quotes containing the words pale gray, pale and/or gray:

“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Two pale drops of fire. Guttering on the vast consuming darkness. My sister and myself. Shortly they will burn no more.”
—Richard Matheson (b. 1926)

“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)