Fahrenheit 451 Book Quotes - Page 2

• The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophical, Thinking, Men

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 13, 2015

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• Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Ninety Nine, Average

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

  Ray Bradbury

  Technology, Government, Thank God

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Silence, Down And, Speak

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.79, Hamilton Books

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• That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Giving Up, Men, Important

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, School, Trying

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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