Children Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

— Ray Bradbury

“Go, children. Run and read. Read and run. Show and tell.”

— Ray Bradbury

“No, child. I'm old enough and cold enough; the hottest day won't thaw me”

— Ray Bradbury

“We are all the sons and daughters of time”

— Ray Bradbury

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who…

— Ray Bradbury

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is…

— Ray Bradbury

“Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?”

— Ray Bradbury

“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to…

— Ray Bradbury

“Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen…

— Ray Bradbury

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are…

— Ray Bradbury

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

— Ray Bradbury

We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand…

— Ray Bradbury

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Where does that put you?" Montag bit his lip. "I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for…

— Ray Bradbury

“I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size…

— Ray Bradbury

I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind…

— Ray Bradbury

“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the…

— Ray Bradbury

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines…

— Ray Bradbury

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to…

— Ray Bradbury

And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing…

— Ray Bradbury

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds…

— Ray Bradbury

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for…

— Ray Bradbury

“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time. I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated…

— Ray Bradbury

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house…

— Ray Bradbury

I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn…

— Ray Bradbury

My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life.…

— Ray Bradbury

“I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says…

— Ray Bradbury

“And now, these books. This. He touched PHYSIOGNOMONIE. The secrets of the individual's character as found on his face. Were Jim and…

— Ray Bradbury

“How're your children, Mrs. Phelps?' he asked. 'You know I haven't any! No one in his right mind, the good Lord knows,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Those children are right," he would have said. "They stole nothing from you, my dear. These things don't belong to you here,…

— Ray Bradbury

“There it is." And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and…

— Ray Bradbury

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or…

— Ray Bradbury

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change…

— Ray Bradbury

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...A child or a book or a painting or a...garden planted. Something your hand touched…

— Ray Bradbury

...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a…

— Ray Bradbury