LIFE in Classic Quotes

1  The good writers touch life often.

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

2  Below, the orange dragon coughed to life.

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

3  And now here I am, messing up your life, too.

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

4  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

5  He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as take.

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

6  You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion.

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

7  After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.

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

8  And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

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

9  He stared at the parlor that was dead and gray as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun.

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

10  The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are.

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

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  A great earthquake had come with fire and leveled the house and Mildred was under there somewhere and his entire life under there and he could not move.

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

13  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

14  And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

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

15  But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life.

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

16  If Beatty so much as breathed on them, Montag felt that his hands might wither, turn over on their sides, and never be shocked to life again; they would be buried the rest of his life in his coat sleeves, forgotten.

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

17  He tried to piece it all together, to go back to the normal pattern of life a few short days ago before the sieve and the sand, Denham's Dentifrice, moth voices, fireflies, the alarms and excursions, too much for a few short days, too much, indeed, for a lifetime.

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