FIRE in Classic Quotes

1  Most fire captains have to be.

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

2  The fire gushing up in a volcano.

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

3  Well, this fire'll last me the rest of my life.

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

4  They see only the blaze, the pretty fire, as you saw it.

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

5  At the last fire, a book of fairy tales, he'd glanced at a single line.

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

6  Beatty opening a fresh tobacco packet, crumpling the cellophane into a sound of fire.

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

7  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

8  That day in the park when we sat together, I knew that some day you might drop by, with fire or friendship, it was hard to guess.

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

9  They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it'll have to hit.

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

10  Two moonstones looked up at him in the light of his small hand-held fire; two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life of the world ran, not touching them.

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

11  He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine.

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

12  One, two, three, four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping tablets, men, disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, tablets, tissues, blow, wad, flush.

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

13  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

14  So it was now, in his own parlor, with these women twisting in their chairs under his gaze, lighting cigarettes, blowing smoke, touching their sun-fired hair and examining their blazing fingernails as if they had caught fire from his look.

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

15  He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.

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

16  The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair.

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

17  The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy disks, and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire; that was how the night felt.

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