Dandelion Wine Quotes

#1. Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered ... sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks ...

Ray Bradbury

#2. Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood. I

Ray Bradbury

#3. About this grass now. I didn't finish telling. It grows so close it's guaranteed to kill off clover and dandelions-"
"Great God in heaven! That means no dandelion wine next year! That means no bees crossing our lot! You're out of your mind, son

Ray Bradbury

#4. 'Dandelion Wine' became one of the few books that I returned to time and again, and while not anywhere near the story crafter as Mr. Bradbury, I hope I managed to absorb by osmosis some of his techniques.

Kim Harrison

#5. There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

T. R. Pearson

#6. The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

Ray Bradbury

#7. When you're happy,you enjoy the music.But,when you're sad,you understand the lyrics.

Eljumar Alesna

#8. In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Bruce Lee

#10. I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

David Icke

#11. I aspired to be the better me of my future.

Toba Beta

#12. My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

W. E. B. Griffin

#13. Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

Doris Brown Heritage

#14. I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

Claes Oldenburg

#15. Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together.

Ray Bradbury

#16. It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Anne Tyler

#17. It's your choice what you want to say: compliments or complaints.

Sarvesh Jain

#18. Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.

Joyce Wycoff

#19. Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain
same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Jonathan Lethem