Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury More Quotes by Ray Bradbury More Quotes From Ray Bradbury I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. Ray Bradbury unclescrazytwo I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them. Ray Bradbury airrunningfun There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel. Ray Bradbury smellfuelbook No person ever died that had a family. Ray Bradbury diedpersons First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Ray Bradbury halloweenmonthsboys Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew. Ray Bradbury starstwilightspring That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more. Ray Bradbury hurtwaitinghome Write what you love and love what you write. Ray Bradbury doing-what-you-lovegood-morningwriting He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough. Ray Bradbury filled-upnatureadventure If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. Ray Bradbury primitiveterritorysilly You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon. Ray Bradbury moonlovelooks First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him. Ray Bradbury herowantwriting So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. Ray Bradbury rebelscarefear Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. Ray Bradbury hatscrazybook A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. Ray Bradbury stoppingstoriesrivers If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. Ray Bradbury democracycountryway My job is to help you fall in love. Ray Bradbury falling-in-lovejobsfall We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. Ray Bradbury worrychildrenpast It was a pleasure to burn. Ray Bradbury chaospleasure I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. Ray Bradbury farenheit-451
