OLD MAN in Classic Quotes

1  The old man stood looking at him.

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

2  The old man leapt up as if to run.

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

3  He put the Bible in the old man's hands.

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

4  The old man turned at last and said, "Come along."

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

5  The old man took a deep breath, held it, and let it out.

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

6  The old man looked as if he had not been out of the house in years.

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

7  The old man inserted a similar object in his own ear and moved his lips.

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

8  The old man said nothing, but glanced once more, nervously, at his bedroom.

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

9  He began to unwad the crumpled paper and flatten it out as the old man watched tiredly.

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

10  Then the old man grew even more courageous and said something else and that was a poem, too.

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

11  And I hardly think a very old man and a fireman turned sour could do much this late in the game.

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

12  He remembered nothing like it save one afternoon a year ago when he had met an old man in the park and they had talked.

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

13  And, again, he saw himself in a green park talking to an old man, a very old man, and the wind from the park was cold, too.

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

14  They had sat in the green soft light without saying a word for a moment and then Montag talked about the weather and then the old man responded with a pale voice.

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

15  And he knew that he was also the old man who talked to him and talked to him as the train was sucked from one end of the night city to the other on one long sickening gasp of motion.

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

16  The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage.

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

17  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