Quotes

 = = 1. "There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."
 * - Ray Bradbury, //Fahrenheit 451//, Part 1, Pg. 51**

This quote was when Guy Montag first began questioning his job and the lifestyle that society has adopted because of the woman that chose to die with the books that burned rather than to live at all. This quote is very important to the novel because it shows Montag's curiosity for what is in a book which gives reason for his actions throughout the novel. 

2. " The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time . . . Time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" **- Ray Bradbury, //Fahrenheit 451//, Part 3, Pg. 141**

This quote was when Guy Montag esacapes the city and floats down the river. Burning is used several times in this quotation to communicate the thought of how wrong it is and that Montag and other firemen must stop their burning because he realizes the sun will always burn and time will never stop, thus it is up to him to change. 

3. " We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal . . . A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind."
 * - Ray Bradbury, //Fahrenheit 451//, Part 1**

This quote is spoken at the end of Hearth of the Salamander by Captain Beatty. This quote in its entirety strikes as irony because it show Captain Beatty defending what the book refers to as "everyone made equal" and he denounces the use of books. This is ironic because Beatty shows himself to be educated which siggests his has an educated mind from books. 

4. "There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly things we just did."
 * - Ray Bradbury, //Fahrenheit 451//, Part 3, Pg. 177**

This quotation was spoken by Granger after Montag had fled the city and floated down the river to find a group of fugitives. Granger is reinforcing the fact that human kind has the ability to reason and understand. He knows that banning books was wrong but what this quote says is that human kind knows this and they are the only ones who can break the cycle that the phoenix cannot.