“I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Then they asked, "What'll we do?" And the men replied, "I don't know." But it was all right. The women knew it… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They have one quilt and a piece of canvas for bedding. The sleeping arrangement is clever. Mother and father lie down together… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“His was a lean excitable face with little bright eyes as evil as a frantic child's eyes. A cantankerous, complaining, mischievous, laughing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried to figure it out. When we were children we lived in a story that we made up. But when I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it. And the children… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Who doesn't like to be a center for concern? A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried to figure it out. When we were children we lived in a story that we made up. But when I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way will the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He had good children and he raised them fine. All doing well -maybe except Joe...they're talking about sending him to college, but… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live...” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Even if teen-age children aren’t making a sound, it’s quieter when they’re gone. They put a boiling in the air around them.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
![“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e88/john-steinbeck-71_adults_adults-in-their-dealing-with-children-ar_2873228.jpg)
