Firefly Quotes

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe…

— Sarah Dessen

Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.…

— Ada Limon

Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the…

— Geoffrey Marcy

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

— Thomas J. Grasso

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

— Jan Karon

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

— Abbey Lee Kershaw

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where…

— Crowfoot

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

— Joss Whedon

She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water.…

— Nora Roberts

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

— Rabindranath Tagore

All of a sudden I was Joan [Mad Man] and they're going, "Oh, so she plays a badass in this." And I'm…

— Christina Hendricks

I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something…

— Joss Whedon

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's…

— Adam Baldwin

She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow…

— Nicholas Sparks

Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell…

— Groucho Marx

I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

— Jubal Early

Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list…

— Roger Ebert

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

— James Russell Lowell

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves…

— Francoise Sagan

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

— Joss Whedon

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by…

— Mark Strand

Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I…

— Joss Whedon

I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never…

— Nathan Fillion

Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?

— Felicia Hemans