Fire Quotes by Ray Bradbury

“Fire is bright and fire is clean.”

— Ray Bradbury

Fire the doubters out of your life.

— Ray Bradbury

“If you need to find out the kindling point of paper (451° F), don’t call an academic, call the fire department.”

— Ray Bradbury

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

— Ray Bradbury

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

— Ray Bradbury

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

— Ray Bradbury

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here…

— Ray Bradbury

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With…

— Ray Bradbury

“What is fire? It’s a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know. Its real beauty…

— Ray Bradbury

“The fire crackled up the stairs. It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily…

— Ray Bradbury

“Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust. Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams. Forget them. Burn them…

— Ray Bradbury

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars…

— Ray Bradbury

“He hung up his black beetle-colored helmet and shined it; he hung his flameproof jacket neatly; he showed luxuriously, and then, whistling,…

— Ray Bradbury

“And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the…

— Ray Bradbury

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to…

— Ray Bradbury

“And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and…

— Ray Bradbury

“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite…

— Ray Bradbury

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted…

— Ray Bradbury

You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the…

— Ray Bradbury

Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I…

— Ray Bradbury

“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With…

— Ray Bradbury

They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all…

— Ray Bradbury