1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
4127
4128
4129
4130
4131
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6f5e9ef | Trick, yes, trick.' The boys were catching fire with the idea. It made all the good glue go out of their joints and put a little dust of sin in their blood. They felt it stir around until it pumped on up to light their eyes and stretch their lips to show their happy-dog teeth. 'Yeah, sure | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7216e6b | We never burned right. | burned fire | Ray Bradbury | |
| 029e6ff | And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Yes, thought Montag, that's the one I'll save for noon. For noon. . . . When we reach the city. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6059515 | Far away in the cool dim empty rooms of the big old house, a silver bell tinkled and faded. | far-away old-house | Ray Bradbury | |
| 50a8741 | The wine still waits in the cellars below. My beloved family still sits on the porch in the dark. The fire balloon still drifts and burns in the night sky of an as yet unburied summer. Why and how? Because I say it is so. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 19fcf9a | This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 5301aae | The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals. The animal does not question life. It lives. Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 0930dad | We got caught reading nights with flashlights under our sheets, right? So, nobody'll suspect an old jar of fireflies; folks'll think it's just a night museum. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 3fa6cc9 | He knew it would take as many years as he could think of now to forget the tracks, no matter how deeply buried. Some morning in autumn, spring, or winter he knew he'd wake and, if he didn't go near the window, if he just lay deep and snug and warm, in his bed, he would hear it, faint and far away. And around the bend of the morning street, up the avenue, between the even rows of sycamore, elm and maple, it the quietness before the start of .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c79e855 | No espere ser salvado por alguna cosa, persona, maquina o biblioteca. Realice su propia labor salvadora, y si se ahoga, muera, por lo menos, sabiendo que se dirigia hacia la playa. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 4c97f05 | This summer night deep down under the stars was all the things you would ever feel or see or hear in your life, drowning you all at once. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 36f99eb | I miss that in the city you can walk outside your front door and there's people all around you. And they don't know a thing about you.You could be anyone. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 21d6ec3 | No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dreams: No possible solutions. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 1d64fc1 | Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2fefe37 | The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burned things with the firemen and the sun burned Time, that meant that everything burned! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2f4fad4 | Grow up and you turn into burglars and get shot, or worse, they make you wear a coat and tie and stash you in the First National Bank behind brass bars! We gotta stand still! Stay the age we are. Grow up? Hah! All you do then is marry someone who screams at you! | growing-up | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8e9c134 | and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty. How | Ray Bradbury | ||
| c08c033 | Somewhere, a book said once, all the talk ever talked, all the songs ever sung, still lived, had vibrated way out in space and if you could travel to Far Centauri you could hear George Washington talking in his sleep or Caesar surprised at the knife in his back. | infinity space-and-time | Ray Bradbury | |
| 20f5204 | And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning. The river bobbled him along gently. Burning. The sun and every clock on the earth. It all came together and became a single thing in his mind. After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life. | epiphany fire sun time water | Ray Bradbury | |
| 2fd407c | Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest. | heart | Ray Bradbury | |
| 3e5096a | Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them, too. Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue, t.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7694d11 | THERE ARE THOSE DAYS WHICH SEEM A TAKING in of breath which, held, suspends the whole earth in its waiting. Some summers refuse to end. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e6a219d | The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| e82adc8 | Outside, a weather of stars ran clear in an ocean sky. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 7f7c56b | They began by controlling books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures, there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 998ada6 | Was there, then, no strength in growing up? No solace in being an adult? No sanctuary in life? No fleshly citadel strong enough to withstand the scrabbling assault of midnights? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| ee2c727 | No one said anything. We all just looked up at the sky and we breathed out and in and we all thought the same things, but nobody said. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| a11a3a7 | Grandma, he had often wanted to say, is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 72ee3b3 | Happy! Of all the nonsense. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f43b107 | Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2fba43d | I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2295720 | Have you ever seen the atom bomb mushroom from two hundred miles up? It's a pinprick. It's nothing. With the wilderness all around it. My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that someday our cities would open up and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 97d7227 | People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 9653c43 | Nickerson began to understand, as only an adolescent on the verge of adulthood can understand, that the carefree days of childhood were gone forever: "Then it was that I, for the first time, realized that I was alone upon a wide and an unfeeling world . . . without one relative or friend to bestow one kind word upon me." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 5216d8e | yield. In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever it grew. The change in attitude was stunning. Families were now willing to work much harder than they had ever worked before. In previous years, the men had tended the fields while the women tended the children at home. "The women now went willingly into the field," Bradford wrote, "an.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| caa9146 | There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| d358344 | Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows; | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 1b2bee5 | Custer wrote, "I often think I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people adhered to the free open plains rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation, there to be the recipient of the blessed benefits of civilization, with its vices thrown in without stint or measure." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 64c54ab | As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 47b0bb9 | When a group of frontiersmen camped on the middle fork of Elkhorn Creek heard about the militiamen's deaths in Massachusetts, they decided to name their outpost for the historic event. That is why what was then a part of Virginia is known today as Lexington, Kentucky. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 6b419aa | This is also the story of two British generals. The first, Thomas Gage, was saddled with the impossible task of implementing his government's unnecessarily punitive response to the Boston Tea Party in December 1773. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 5139f7d | No longer mindful of the debt they owed the Pokanokets, without whom their parents would never have endured their first year in America, some of the Pilgrims' children were less willing to treat Native leaders with the tolerance and respect their parents had once afforded Massasoit. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 7032a10 | A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity, before the church had been corrupted by centuries of laxity and abuse, to locate divine truth. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 8d55c90 | Warren had a most unusual household. A recent widower with four children between the ages of two and eight, he was not only a leading patriot but also had one of the busiest medical practices in Boston. He had two apprentices living with him on Hanover Street, and he sometimes saw as many as twenty patients a day. His practice ran the gamut, from little boys with broken bones, like John Quincy Adams, to prostitutes on aptly named Damnation .. | Nathaniel Philbrick |