# Ray Bradbury

- Quotes: 47
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury

## Books

- [Dandelion Wine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine.md) — 14 quotes
- [Something Wicked This Way Comes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes.md) — 8 quotes
- [The Halloween Tree](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-halloween-tree.md) — 6 quotes
- [The Martian Chronicles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-martian-chronicles.md) — 11 quotes
- [The October Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-october-country.md) — 8 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The scythe fell and lay in the grass like a lost smile.

p. 50 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-halloween-tree/the-scythe-fell.md)

> O autumn winds that bake and burn
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> And all the world to darkness turn,
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> Now storm and seize and make of me…
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> A swarm of leaves from Autumn’s Tree!

p. 79 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-halloween-tree/o-autumn-winds.md)

> “What’s happening, Mr. Moundshroud? Where are we?”
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> Moundshroud struck a flinty finger into fire and held it up. “Why, bless me, boys. It’s the Dark Ages. The longest darkest night ever.”

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-halloween-tree/whats-happening-mr-moundshroud.md)

> It’s big, it’s broad…
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> It’s broad, it’s bright…
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> It fills the sky of All Hallow’s Night…
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> The strangest sight you’ve ever seen.
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> The Monster Tree on Halloween.

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-halloween-tree/its-big-its.md)

> Mr. Moundshroud, who are YOU?
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> And Mr. Moundshroud, way up there on the roof, sent his thoughts back:
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> I think you know, boy, I think you know.
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> Will we meet again, Mr. Moundshroud?
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> Many years from now, yes, I’ll come for you.
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> And a last thought from Tom:
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> O Mr. Moundshroud, will we EVER stop being afraid of nights and death?
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> And the thought returned:
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> When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.

p. 178 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-halloween-tree/mr-moundshroud-who.md)

> The days of the Long Cold are done. Because of this one brave, new-thinking man, summer lives in the winter cave.

p. 73 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-halloween-tree/the-days-of-the.md)

> God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/god-how-we-get.md)

> “No,” said the old man, deep under. “I don’t remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns.”

p. 85 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/no-said-the.md)

> Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you’re twenty.

p. 147 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/kindness-and-intelligence.md)

> And the odd thing in Dad’s voice was the sound truth makes being said. The sound of truth, in a wild roving land of city or plain country lies, will spell any boy.

p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/something-wicked-this-way-comes/and-the-odd.md)

> Any town, New York, Chicago, with its people, becomes improbable with distance. Just as I am improbable here, in Illinois, in a small town by a quiet lake. All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another.

p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/any-town-new.md)

> Grandma, he had often wanted to say, Is this where the world began? For surely it had begun in no other than a place like this. The kitchen, without doubt, was the center of creation, all things revolved about it; it was the pediment that sustained the temple.

p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/dandelion-wine/grandma-he-had.md)