“Dandelion Wine” (quotes from the book follow) is a work by Ray Bradbury that has already become a classic. With him you will plunge into the wonderful world of a twelve-year-old boy and spend with him one and only summer, which will never be repeated, however, like any other summer, day, hour or minute. After all, every new dawn is an event, and it doesn’t matter what it is, joyful or sad, wonderful or full of anxiety and disappointment, the main thing is that with it you breathe life deeply, truly feel alive.
“Dandelion Wine”: Quotes about Summer
It's summer 1928. The main character is a twelve-year-old boy, Douglas Spalding, who lives in the small sleepy town of Greentown, which literally means “green city.” And it’s not for nothing that it was given such a name, because there is so much light and lush greenery around that it seems that there is “neither a long autumn, nor a white winter, nor a cool green spring” ahead, no, and never will be...
But Douglas, albeit unconsciously, by touch, guesses that sooner or later the end will come to “June dawns, and July afternoons, and August evenings.” They will remain only in memory, and they need to be thought about and summed up. What if something is forgotten? It doesn’t matter, there is always a bottle of dandelion wine in the cellar, and there is a date on it, so not a single day of summer will slip away.
Yes, this is a sunny summer like never before - the last time of his carefree childhood. Autumn is ahead, leading by the hand into the inevitable world of adults. That’s why you have to hurry to live, breathe in the aromas of this magical time, run with friends, fool around with your brother, get into incredible adventures, ask endless questions to adults and watch, watch their strange life. We continue reading the novel “Dandelion Wine.” Quotes from the work will help convey the atmosphere of a hot summer.
A book with a taste of life... A selection of quotes and phrases from Ray Bradbury's book Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury is a world-class writer; he has written fascinating stories filled with a taste of life, truth and love. One such product is Dandelion Wine. We have prepared for you the brightest and most famous quotes from the book. In this collection you will find statements about nature, life, love and, of course, summer.
The book Dandelion Wine was first published in 1957. According to critics, it is filled with autobiographical moments and reflects the views and experiences of its author. The main characters of the work are two boys, 10 and 12 years old. The reader gets acquainted with the characters, their relatives and acquaintances, he experiences the whole summer with them.
In addition to the fascinating plot, the book contains many beautiful descriptions of nature that encourage the reader to draw unique landscapes in front of them. The title of the book was also chosen for a reason. Since the grandfather of the main characters, Douglas and Tom, makes dandelion wine every summer, this drink in the family unwittingly became a symbol of summer.
It seemed to her that the children were running away under the fragrant trees, carrying away her youth, invisible as air, in their cold fingers.
When you look at your children, you realize that your childhood is over...
To become men, boys must wander, always, throughout their lives, wander.
As for me, on the contrary, they should find their refuge in their youth.
I have always believed that true love is determined by the spirit, although the body sometimes refuses to believe it.
The body and soul often think differently.
They see much further back than you and I will ever see forward.
You should always look only forward; there is simply no need to look back.
Never let anyone cover the roof if it doesn't give him pleasure.
Everything a person does, he should do with pleasure.
June dawns, July afternoons, August evenings - everything has passed, ended, gone forever and remains only in memory. Now there is a long autumn, a white winter, a cool green spring ahead, and during this time we need to think about the past summer and take stock. And if he [Douglas] forgets something, well, there is dandelion wine in the cellar, each bottle has a number written on it, and in them are all the days of summer, every single one.
Everyone has something left that reminds us of the past summer...
You just need to get a good night's sleep, or cry for ten minutes, or eat a whole pint of chocolate ice cream, or even all this together - you can't think of a better cure.
Tears wash away the heaviness from the soul.
You can get everything you need if you really need it.
Desire is stronger than possibilities, therefore, you just have to want...
On days like today, it seems to me that I will be alone.
Some kind of disappointing desire...
Dandelion wine - caught and bottled in summer.
Photos are also immortalized moments of summer.
There are five billion trees in the world, and under every tree lies a shadow...
Imagine how many people there are in the world... And each person also has his own shadow...
He was left empty, like the jar of fireflies that he, without noticing it, put in his bed with him when he was trying to sleep...
We often do things automatically, without noticing it...
Some people start to grieve too early,” he said. “There doesn’t seem to be any reason, but they seem to be like that from birth.” They take everything very seriously, and they get tired quickly, and tears are close to them, and they remember every misfortune for a long time, so they begin to be sad from a very young age. I know, I’m like that myself.
Some people take every little thing to heart, while others won’t even pay attention to an important moment...
You always want to remain the same as you were before, but this is impossible: because today you are no longer the same.
It is human nature to change, not just every day, but changes can occur even every minute, or even second.
Find friends, scatter enemies!
They don’t look for friends, life gives them.
Who can tell where the city ends and the wilderness begins? Who can say whether the city grows into it or whether it turns into the city?
Perhaps it is often impossible to determine exact boundaries either in life or in nature.
Take summer in your hand, pour summer into a glass - into the tiniest glass, of course, from which you can take a single tart sip; bring it to your lips - and instead of a fierce winter, a hot summer will run through your veins...
On cool autumn days you really want to snuggle a piece of summer to yourself.
If you had your way, you would pass a law to eliminate all small matters, all little things. But then you would have nothing to do in between big things and would have to frantically invent activities for yourself so as not to go crazy.
It’s the little things that lead to the right conclusions.
Now little things seem boring to you, but maybe you just don’t know their value yet, don’t know how to find taste in them?
Pay attention to the little things, they can be very important to you.
The sun not only rose, it surged like a torrent and filled the whole world.
The sun embraces the entire Universe with its embrace.
Parents sometimes forget how they themselves were children.
But as parents, they are simply obliged to warn their children, hiding what they themselves did in exactly the same way...
If you run, time definitely runs with you. There is only one - the only way to delay time at least a little: you have to look at everything around you, but do nothing yourself!
While at work, time passes unnoticed; while waiting, it barely drags on.
Love is when you want to experience all four seasons with someone. When you want to run with someone from a spring thunderstorm under lilacs strewn with flowers, and in the summer you want to pick berries and swim in the river. In the fall, make jam together and seal the windows against the cold. In winter - to help survive a runny nose and long evenings...
Love does not depend on the time of year or the weather outside the window.
Kindness and intelligence are properties of old age. At twenty years old, a woman is much more interested in being heartless and frivolous.
So keep in mind that if you have grown older and wiser, you are on the verge of old age...)
Bread and ham in the forest is not like at home. The taste is completely different, right? It’s sharper or something... It gives off a crumpled, resinous feel...
In nature, your appetite is always better and the food tastes better.
Smile, don't give misfortune pleasure.
A smile attracts good and repels evil.
The morning was quiet, the city, shrouded in darkness, lay peacefully in bed. Summer came, and the wind was summer - the warm breath of the world, unhurried and lazy. You just have to get up, lean out the window, and you will immediately understand: here it begins, real freedom and life, here it is, the first morning of summer.
Before you know it, the first morning of summer turns into the first morning of autumn.
She sat down next to him on the swing, in only a nightgown, not thin, like a seventeen-year-old girl who is not yet loved, and not fat, like a fifty-year-old woman who is no longer loved, but folded and strong, just the way she should be - This is what women are like at any age if they are loved.
A woman's figure is beautiful when there are no extra pounds and there is something to look at.
Each person for himself is the only one in the world. One and only, on his own among a great many other people, and always afraid.
Each of us has our own fears.
Dandelion wine. These very words are like summer on the tongue. Dandelion wine - caught and bottled in summer.
How I want to take a piece of summer with me and transfer it into autumn.
Will young women really start talking like me? That will come later. First of all, they are too young for this. And secondly, most young men are scared to death if they see that a woman has any thoughts in her head. You've probably met more than once very smart women who very successfully hid their intelligence from you.
If a woman is smart and beautiful, then men begin to fear her.
A lilac bush is better than orchids. And dandelions too, and thistles. And why? Yes, because they distract a person at least for a short time, take him away from people and the city, make him sweat and return him from heaven to earth. And when you are all here and no one bothers you, at least for a while you are left alone with yourself and begin to think, alone, without outside help.
Flowers that grow in nature are much more beautiful than indoor flowers, because they are natural like no other!
The hum of this mower is the most beautiful melody in the world, it has all the charm of summer, without it I would be terribly homesick, and without the smell of freshly cut grass too.
But still, the singing of birds is much more beautiful than this mower.
When you walk, you have time to look around and notice the smallest beauty.
Hiking opens our eyes to the beauty that surrounds us.
Everyone loves summer. It’s so hard to part with him and I really want to take him with me. In autumn and winter, more than ever you want to take something that would remind you of summer. Quotes from the book by Ray Bradbury Dandelion wine is just what will remind you of summer.
Other inhabitants
And there was someone to watch, yet Douglas is not the only resident. Hot summer days and the whole of Greentown live with him. True, each in his own way. For example, grandfather could not get enough of his wonderful mower. Every time he cut fresh grass, he lamented that the New Year should not be celebrated on the first of January. This holiday needs to be moved to the summer. As soon as the grass on the lawn is ripe for haymaking, that means the very day has come, marking the beginning. Instead of shouts of “Hurray!”, fireworks and fanfare, a solemn symphony of mowers should sound. Instead of confetti and streamers - a handful of freshly cut grass.
But not everything and everyone in Greentown was so wonderful. There was also room for disappointment, tears, impossible quarrels, and sadness. In addition, when the sun set, it became one of millions of similar towns, and it was just as dark and lonely. The night life was scary. She released her monster, whose name is death... A mysterious and terrible Murderer roamed the streets. His target was young girls who were in no hurry to return home on quiet, warm summer evenings.
A sip of summer
But still, it was summer. And it, unlike the fierce winter wind, does not divide, does not separate people, does not disperse them - each to their own home, but unites, calls to enjoy “real freedom and life”, and to absorb “the warm breath of the world, unhurried and lazy " And it also brought together, if not all, then many on the day of collecting dandelions. It was an extraordinary tradition to “catch and bottle summer” - dandelion wine. Quotes from the book will definitely convey the tart taste of the golden drink.
We cannot collect the sun's rays, put them tightly in a jar and immediately close the lid so as not to scatter in all directions. “Idle August afternoons, the subtle clicking of the wheels of an ice cream cart, the rustle of cut grass, the ant kingdom humming under your feet” - nothing lasts forever, and even memory can fail. It's like dandelion wine! Its soft shimmer is “like flowers opening at dawn.” And even if on a cold winter day there is a thin layer of dust on the bottle, the “sun of this June” will still look through it. And if you look through it on a January day, then instantly “the snow will melt, and the grass will appear, and the birds will sing in the trees, and even the flowers and grass will flutter in the wind.” And the “cold leaden sky” will definitely turn blue.
Age of soul and body
Another striking feature of the book Dandelion Wine (quotes follow) is that it is not intended for a specific age. Both teenage children, essentially the same age as the main character, and people of the older generation will be able to learn equally a lot from the work of Ray Bradbury. It is not for nothing that there is so much discussion in it about age, about what childhood, youth and old age are, and whether numbers mean so much.
For example, older people honestly say that life is much easier for old people, “after all, they always look as if they know about everything in the world.” But is this really so? No, more like a pretense and a mask. And when they are alone, they certainly wink at each other and smile: how do you like my confidence, my acting, because I’m a good actor? And the author is also sure that time is a kind of hypnosis. When a person is nine, it seems to him that the number nine has always been, is and will be. At thirty, we are sure that life will never cross this “beautiful line of maturity.” Seventy is seen as something that will always and forever be. Yes, we all live only in the present, and it doesn’t matter how young or old it is. We will never see or know otherwise.
When life is good, there is no need to argue about it
Ray Bradbury. Best quotes and aphorisms
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Find friends, scatter enemies!
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Kindness and intelligence are properties of old age. At 20, a woman is much more interested in being heartless and frivolous.
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To survive, you need to stop asking what the meaning of life is. Life itself is the answer.
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Evil has only one power - the one that we ourselves give it.
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When life is good, there is no need to argue about it.
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When you live next to people all the time, they don’t change one iota. You are amazed at the changes that have taken place in them only if you separate for a long time, for years.
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Looking for rabbits in hats is a lost cause, like looking for a modicum of common sense in some people's heads.
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We have one responsibility - to be happy.
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Create something yourself that can save the world, and if you drown along the way, at least you will know that you swam to the shore.
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Books are just one of the containers where we store what we are afraid to forget.
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The real secret to creativity is to treat your ideas like cats—just make them follow you.
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I experienced the simplest and greatest happiness in the world - I was alive.
Love is when someone can give a person back himself. Ray Bradbury
About life
The book “Dandelion Wine” is replete with the author’s thoughts about life, about the meaning of existence. He puts them both in the mouths of boys and in the mouths of adults. At the same time, it is impossible to say that the first are naive, and the second say every word is wisdom. The truth is available to everyone, it has no age markings. For example, Douglas tells Tom that his main concern is how God runs the world. To which the latter confidently replies that it’s not worth it, because “he’s still trying.”
Or here’s another quote from Bradbury (“Dandelion Wine”): Doug was riding his bike one day, pedaling diligently and thinking about “what are the main shocks in life, where are they, the important turns.” “Every person is first born, gradually grows, eventually begins to grow old and finally dies. Being born does not depend on us. But isn’t it possible to somehow influence maturity, old age and death?”
And finally, for true fans of the work “Dandelion Wine” - quotes in English about life: “So if trolleys and runabouts and friends and near friends can go away for a while or go away forever, or rust, or fall apart or die, and if people can be murdered, and if someone like great-grandma, who was going to live forever can die... if all of this is true... then... I, Douglas Spaulding, some day, must..."; “.. I have always believed that true love defines the spirit, although the body sometimes refuses to believe it.”
Love is the godmother of stupidity
Ray Bradbury. Quotes and aphorisms about love
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Why is love needed at all? Love, you might say, is lubricating oil. Eliminates friction. After all, in life it’s like: sometimes you run into someone’s elbow, sometimes you crush someone’s leg. People beat each other up with ladles in vain, and without malicious intent, and therefore you need to immerse yourself in a bath of pure oil in advance, otherwise you won’t get far. The brakes will burn out within the first mile.
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He who has ceased to be surprised has ceased to love, and he who has ceased to love is considered to have no life, and whoever has no life is to be considered to have gone to the grave.
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Girls, when they are in love, only seem stupid because they don’t hear anything at the time.
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Love is the godmother of stupidity.
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He who has ceased to be surprised has ceased to love, and he who has ceased to love is considered to have no life, and whoever has no life is to be considered to have gone to the grave.
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Love has a bad effect on the vestibular apparatus. This makes girls fall straight into men's arms.
