BLACK in Classic Quotes

1  Good night, Mrs. Black, he thought.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

2  Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

3  Montag sat in the front seat with Beatty and Black.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

4  Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

5  Beatty, Stoneman and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in their plump fireproof slickers.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

6  The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

7  These men who looked steadily into their platinum igniter flames as they lit their eternally burning black pipes.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

9  Montag watched through the window as Beatty drove away in his gleaming yellow-flame-colored beetle with the black, char-colored tires.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

10  One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

11  The breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the furthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fiber of hair.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

12  He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

13  Montag drifted about as if still another incomprehensible storm had turned him, to see Stoneman and Black wielding axes, shattering windowpanes to provide cross ventilation.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

14  The thought had been with him many times recently but now he remembered how it was that day in the city park when he had seen that old man in the black suit hide something, quickly, in his coat.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

15  He hung up his black beetle-colored helmet and shined it; he hung his flameproof jacket neatly; he showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked across the upper floor of the fire station and fell down the hole.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

16  They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and gray-looking without its wall lit with orange and yellow confetti and skyrockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

17  Then he stood in the cold night air, waiting, and at a distance he heard the fire sirens start up and run, and the Salamanders coming, coming to burn Mr. Black's house while he was away at work, to make his wife stand shivering in the morning air while the roof let go and dropped in upon the fire, But now, she was still asleep.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright