1,603 Quotes by Ray Bradbury

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.