STREET in Classic Quotes

1  People ran out of houses all down the street.

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

2  The street and the lawn and the porch were empty.

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

3  Montag was in the dark street again, looking at the world.

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

4  Across the street and down the way the other houses stood with their flat fronts.

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

5  Montag and Stoneman went back to looking at the street as it moved under the engine wheels.

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

6  Lights flicked on and house doors opened all down the street, to watch the carnival set up.

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

7  He was now half across the street, but the roar from the beetle's engines whined higher as it put on speed.

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

8  Beatty grabbed Montag's shoulder as the beetle blasted away and hit seventy miles an hour, far down the street, gone.

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

9  Why, he thought, now that I think of it, she almost seemed to be waiting for me there, in the street, so damned late at night.

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

10  A few house lights were going on again down the street, whether from the incidents just passed, or because of the abnormal silence following the fight, Montag did not know.

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

11  Far down the boulevard, four blocks way, the beetle had slowed, spun about on two wheels, and was now racing back, slanting over on the wrong side of the street, picking up speed.

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

12  The street empty, the house burnt like an ancient bit of stage scenery, the other homes dark, the Hound here, Beatty there, the three other firemen another place, and the Salamander.

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

13  Even if the street were entirely empty, of course, you couldn't be sure of a safe crossing, for a car could appear suddenly over the rise four blocks further on and be on and past you before you had taken a dozen breaths.

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

14  The lawn was empty, the trees empty, the street empty, and while at first he did not even know he missed her or was even looking for her, the fact was that by the time he reached the subway, there were vague stirrings of dis-ease in him.

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

15  He felt it scrabble and seize his leg and stab the needle in for a moment before the fire snapped the Hound up in the air, burst its metal bones at the joints, and blew out its interior in a single flushing of red color like a skyrocket fastened to the street.

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

16  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

17  For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty.

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