“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When he read his father’s books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as… — 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
“That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our Father who art in nature...must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam’s mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. She felt that her husband would… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?” The eyes did not change or move. “I did it,” Cal cried. “I’m… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents… The face and body may be perfect, but if a… — 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
“There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — 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
“It became his habit to creep out of bed even before his mother was awake, to slip into his clothes and to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam found his father out. It wasn’t that his father changed but that some new quality came to Adam. He had always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But you said you did not love our father. How can you have faith in him if you didn’t love him?” “Maybe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Cathy was fourteen when she entered high school. She had always been precious to her parents, but with her entrance into the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“My darling looks like a little girl when she awakens. You couldn't think she is the mother of two big brats. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Tom , the third son, was most like his father. He was born in fury and he lived in lightning.Tom came headlong… — 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
