BURNING in Classic Quotes

1  One of them had to stop burning.

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

2  It was not burning, it was warming.

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

3  His lungs were like burning brooms in his chest.

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

4  The world was full of burning of all types and sizes.

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

5  And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning.

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

6  For tonight only, he thought, in case she decides to do any more burning.

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

7  While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.

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

8  He stood in the hall of his house, putting on his badge with the orange salamander burning across it.

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

9  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

10  Their names leapt in fire, burning down the years under his axe and his hose which sprayed not water but kerosene.

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

11  He cut off its terrible emptiness, drew back, and gave the entire room a gift of one huge bright yellow flower of burning.

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

12  There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.

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

13  The perspiration gathered with the silence and the subaudible trembling around and about and in the women who were burning with tension.

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

14  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.

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

15  He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

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

16  They were like a monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes, he saw their Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house, and now they were screaming at each other above the din.

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

17  With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.

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