ONCE in Classic Quotes

1  My uncle says it was different once.

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

2  My uncle drove slowly on a highway once.

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

3  We need to be really bothered once in a while.

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

4  I want to look at them, at least look at them once.

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

5  Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore.

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

6  I don't want that Hound picking up two odors at once.

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

7  How does she do both at once, thought Montag, insanely.

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

8  At least once in his career, every fireman gets an itch.

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

9  It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.

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

10  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

11  But everything at once, but everything one on top of another, Beatty, the women, Mildred, Clarisse, everything.

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

12  There's Beatty dead, and he was my friend once, and there's Millie gone, I thought she was my wife, but now I don't know.

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

13  He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him quietly, and emptying his pockets, without once moving herself.

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

14  Montag said nothing but stood looking at the women's faces as he had once looked at the face of saints in a strange church he had entered when he was a child.

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

15  Ladies, once a year, every fireman's allowed to bring one book home, from the old days, to show his family how silly it all was, how nervous that sort of thing can make you, how crazy.

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

16  She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

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

17  Once he saw her shaking a walnut tree, once he saw her sitting on the lawn knitting a blue sweater, three or four times he found a bouquet of late flowers on his porch, or a handful of chestnuts in a little sack, or some autumn leaves neatly pinned to a sheet of white paper and thumbtacked to his door.

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