PAST in Classic Quotes

1  You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion.

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

2  Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years.

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

3  Well," said Beatty, "the crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold.

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

4  She ran past with her body stiff, her face floured with powder, her mouth gone, without lipstick.

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

5  Only then did he leap past the other passengers, screaming in his mind, plunge through the slicing door only in time.

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

6  The subway fled past him, cream-tile, jet-black, cream-tile, jet-black, numerals and darkness, more darkness and the total adding itself.

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

7  Even if the street were entirely empty, of course, you couldn't be sure of a safe crossing, for a car could appear suddenly over the rise four blocks further on and be on and past you before you had taken a dozen breaths.

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

8  It would be hard to see her, but her face would be like the face of the girl so long ago in his past now, so very long ago, the girl who had known the weather and never been burned by the fireflies, the girl who had known what dandelions meant rubbed off on your chin.

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