OLD in Classic Quotes

1  The old man leapt up as if to run.

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

2  Just had another call on the old ear-thimble.

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

3  The old woman's eyes came to a focus upon Beatty.

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

4  Even the smile, he thought, the old burnt-in smile, that's gone.

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

5  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

6  Someone somewhere will give me back the old face and the old hands the way they were.

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

7  Faber peered out, looking very old in the light and very fragile and very much afraid.

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

8  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

9  Then his eyes touched on the book under Montag's arm and he did not look so old any more and not quite as fragile.

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

10  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

11  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

12  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

13  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

14  He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house.

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

15  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

16  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

17  It was a flaking three-story house in the ancient part of the city, a century old if it was a day, but like all houses it had been given a thin fireproof plastic sheath many years ago, and this preservative shell seemed to be the only thing holding it in the sky.

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