Firefly Quotes

• Take my love, take my land.
  Take me where I cannot stand
  I don't care, I'm still free
  You can't take the sky from me.

  Joss Whedon

  Freedom, Land, Sky

  "The Ballad of Serenity". Song by Joss Whedon,

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• Working on Drive, a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on Firefly of course. He called me up and said I've got a part for you that you will love and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "Nathan Fillion Interview - WAITRESS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 2, 2007.

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• Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

  Joss Whedon

  Lost, Okay, Angry

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• You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

  Adam Baldwin

  Realizing, Beats, Chains

  "Fictional character: Jayne". "The Train Job", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

  Xiang Yu

  Men, Volcanoes, Years

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• You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

  Jubal Early

  Girl, Doe, Cargo

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• That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

  Kristin Hannah

  Best Friend, Friends, Mother

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.273, Macmillan

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• I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

  Jubal Early

  Thinking, Lions, Might

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• If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

  Joss Whedon

  Serenity, You Don't Know Me, Awake

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• Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.

  Joss Whedon

  Doctors, Serenity, Tears

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• Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain't comin' back Burn the land and boil the sea You can't take the sky from me There's no place I can be Since I found Serenity But you can't take the sky from me.

  Joss Whedon

  Sea, Land, Sky

  "Firefly". Opening Theme song, www.imdb.com. 2002 - 2003.

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• I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

  Joss Whedon

  Wind, Serenity, Free Spirit

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• You can't take the sky from me.

  Joss Whedon

  Freedom, Sky, Possibility

  "The Ballad of Serenity". Opening theme song by Joss Whedon for TV Series "Firefly", www.youtube.com. 2002-2003.

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• Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

  Leslie Easterbrook

  Mother, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

  Joss Whedon

  Serenity, Done, Impossible

  "Fictional character: Mal". Firefly (TV series), 2002 - 2003.

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• Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, Missing, Brain

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• Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

  Joss Whedon

  Psychics, Space, Sound

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• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Life, Change, Death

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• That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Rain, Good Luck

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.

  Fernand Braudel

  Dark, Light, Political

  Fernand Braudel (1995). “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II”, p.901, Univ of California Press

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• Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.

  Joss Whedon

  Fall, Home, Math

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• Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?

  Joss Whedon

  Jobs, Men, Naughty

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

  James Russell Lowell

  Air, Tiny, Bolts

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.923, Delphi Classics

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• So you treat your love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while. Catch it in a mason jar, with holes in the top, and run like hell to show it off.

  Miranda Lambert

  Running, Shining, Littles

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• Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

  Joss Whedon

  Truth, Writing, Half

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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