Ray Bradbury Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Past

  Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.

• 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

  Dark, Past, Shadow

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Past, Worry

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

• Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Past, Night

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books

• Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Past, College, Intellectual

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Reality, Past

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

• You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

  Ray Bradbury

  Past, Worry

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2014). “Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And other Conversations”, p.16, Melville House

• Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

  Ray Bradbury

  Past, Should Have, Half

• I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

  Ray Bradbury

  Past, Two, Half

  "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Geller, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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