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Crayons & Colors

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. – Robert Fulghum

Life is about using the whole box of crayons. – RuPaul

Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. – Mark Scharenbroich

A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. – Bill Watterson

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. – Robert Fulghum

Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. – Peter Lynch

If you’re ever in a jam, a crayon scrunched up under your nose makes a good pretend mustache. – “Phil’s-osophy” by Phil Dunphy (Christopher Lloyd, Steven Levitan, and Dan

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. – Al Hirschfeld

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. – Louis L’Amour

Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. – Dr.SunWolf, 2009 tweet, professorsunwolf.com [And a few years later comes the ad

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. – Murasaki Shikibu

No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds… – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. – Kim Nance

Colors are the smiles of nature. – Leigh Hunt

I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me. – Author Unknown

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. – Chris Van Allsburg

My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons. – Terri Guillemets

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. – Yoko Ono

The handwriting on the wall means the grandchildren found the crayons. – Author Unknown

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. – James Abbott McNeill Whistler