SKY in Classic Quotes

1  Montag snapped his gaze to the sky.

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

2  As he stood there the sky over the house screamed.

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

3  A great whirling whisper made him look to the sky.

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

4  You could feel the war getting ready in the sky that night.

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

5  The rain had stopped and the sun was setting in the clear sky.

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

6  The moon rose in the sky as Montag walked, his lips moving just a trifle.

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

7  They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house.

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

8  The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky.

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

9  It bedded itself down in sleepy pink-gray cinders and a smoke plume blew over it, rising and waving slowly back and forth in the sky.

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

10  The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness.

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

11  And there on the small screen was the burnt house, and the crowd and something with a sheet over it and out of the sky, fluttering, came the helicopter like a grotesque flower.

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

12  On his way across town, with the helicopters fluttering like torn bits of paper in the sky, he phoned the alarm at a lonely phone booth outside a store that was closed for the night.

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

13  The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and the copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast.

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

14  His name was Faber, and when he finally lost his fear of Montag, he talked in a cadenced voice, looking at the sky and the trees and the green park, and when an hour had passed he said something to Montag and Montag sensed it was a rhymeless poem.

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

15  It was a flaking three-story house in the ancient part of the city, a century old if it was a day, but like all houses it had been given a thin fireproof plastic sheath many years ago, and this preservative shell seemed to be the only thing holding it in the sky.

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

16  The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds, like the enemy disks, and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire; that was how the night felt.

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

17  He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face.

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