HOURS in Classic Quotes

1  You should've gone two hours ago.

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

2  I go to bed only five hours a night.

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

3  I'll say my say, too, in the next few hours.

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

4  Forty-eight hours they said, and everyone home.

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

5  We let the fireman keep the book twenty-four hours.

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

6  He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days.

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

7  Someone who may have been a friend was burnt less than twenty-four hours ago.

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

8  She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away.

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

9  Already, in a few short hours, it seemed that he had known Faber for a lifetime.

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

10  The voice clock mourned out the cold hour of a cold morning of a still colder year.

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

11  , case like this; all you need is two handymen, clean up the problem in half an hour.

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

12  The war would have to wait for him to come to it in his personal file, an hour, two hours from now.

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

13  So it looked as if it had to be Montag and the people he had worked with until a few short hours ago.

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

14  The next few hours, when you see Captain Beatty, tiptoe 'round him, let me hear him for you, let me feel the situation out.'

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

15  So, with the feeling of a man who will die in the next hour for lack of air, he felt his way toward his open, separate, and therefore cold bed.

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

16  But he read and the worlds fell through, and he thought, in a few hours, there will be Beatty, and here will be me handing this over, so no phrase must escape me, each line must be memorized.

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

17  One time, as a child, in a power failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space lost its vast dimensions and drew comfortably around them, and they, mother and son, alone, transformed, hoping that the power might not come on again too soon.

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