--- title: "14 Boys Quotes By John Steinbeck" description: "14 Boys quotes by John Steinbeck. Plus more from John Steinbeck and more Boys sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/john-steinbeck-71_boys_a-boy-becomes-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed_2720405.jpg" --- > [A boy becomes a man when a man is needed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/a-boy-becomes-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/john-steinbeck-71_boys_a-boy-becomes-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed_2720405.jpg) > [... every little boy thinks he invented sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented-sin/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/john-steinbeck-71_boys_every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented-sin_2373799.jpg) > [Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/well-every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented-sin-virtue-we-think-we-learn/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/john-steinbeck-71_boys_well-every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented_1563165.jpg) > [A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/a-boy-gets-to-be-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed-remember-this-thing-i/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf2/john-steinbeck-71_be-a-man_a-boy-gets-to-be-a-man-when-a-man-is-nee_2666748.jpg) > [But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/but-you-can-t-start-over-only-a-boy-can-start-over-you-and-me-why-we/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b7/john-steinbeck-71_boys_but-you-can-t-start-over-only-a-boy-can_1462010.jpg) > [Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/montana-seems-to-me-to-be-what-a-small-boy-would-think-texas-is-like/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/john-steinbeck-71_boys_montana-seems-to-me-to-be-what-a-small-b_2385017.jpg) > [“The boys exchanged uneasy glances. It was their first experience with the inexorable logic of women, which is overwhelming even, or perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/the-boys-exchanged-uneasy-glances-it-was-their-first-experience-with/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/579/john-steinbeck-71_brilliant_the-boys-exchanged-uneasy-glances-it-was_1214710.jpg) > [At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/at-one-point-as-samuel-urges-adam-to-raise-his-boys-well-regardless/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/john-steinbeck-71_adam_at-one-point-as-samuel-urges-adam-to-rai_1170309.jpg) > [How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/how-can-i-teach-my-boys-the-value-and-beauty-of-language-and-thus/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/john-steinbeck-71_administration_how-can-i-teach-my-boys-the-value-and-be_1325644.jpg) > [But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/but-whereas-a-puppy-will-cringe-away-or-roll-on-its-back-groveling-a/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/john-steinbeck-71_boys_but-whereas-a-puppy-will-cringe-away-or_187324.jpg) > [Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/our-father-who-art-in-nature-who-has-given-the-gift-of-survival-to/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6d/john-steinbeck-71_art_our-father-who-art-in-nature-who-has-giv_585765.jpg) > [After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/after-the-bare-requisites-to-living-and-reproducing-man-wants-most-to/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d0/john-steinbeck-71_boys_after-the-bare-requisites-to-living-and_191624.jpg) > [A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/a-town-is-a-thing-like-a-colonial-animal-a-town-has-a-nervous-system/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26c/john-steinbeck-71_animal_a-town-is-a-thing-like-a-colonial-animal_695658.jpg) > [Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/look-at-them-there-are-your-true-philosophers-i-think-that-mack-and/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/john-steinbeck-71_ambition_look-at-them-there-are-your-true-philoso_368335.jpg) ## Other authors on Boys - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 45 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/cassandra-clare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 36 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/john-green/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 35 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/rick-riordan/) - [Mark Twain 33 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-maggie-stiefvater-62633.jpg) Maggie Stiefvater 27 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/maggie-stiefvater/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-ally-carter-11837.jpg) Ally Carter 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/ally-carter/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/charles-dickens/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 23 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/paulo-coelho/) - [Baden Powell de Aquino 20 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/baden-powell-de-aquino/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sarah-dessen-83191.jpg) Sarah Dessen 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/sarah-dessen/) ## More by John Steinbeck > [ Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three \[great teachers\] did not… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-the-arts-since-the-medium-is/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/prayer-never-brought-in-no-side-meat-takes-a-shoat-to-bring-in-pork/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/and-now-submarines-are-armed-with-mass-murder-our-silly-only-way-of/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/i-d-think-there-are-degrees-of-greatness-adam-said-i-don-t-think-so/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/he-was-forever-inventing-a-new-way-of-doing-an-old-thing-and-doing-it/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [“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.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/you-come-back-a-changed-man-samuel-you-don-t-change-him-he-changes/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/i-find-out-of-long-experience-that-i-admire-all-nations-and-hate-all/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/at-about-10-o-clock-in-the-morning-the-sun-threw-a-bright-dust-laden/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/i-have-noticed-that-there-is-no-dissatisfaction-like-that-of-the-rich/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [“Who in his mind has not probe the dark water?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/who-in-his-mind-has-not-probe-the-dark-water/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/sometimes-a-lie-is-told-in-kindness-i-don-t-believe-it-ever-works/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [People like you to be something, preferably what they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/people-like-you-to-be-something-preferably-what-they-are/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/suddenly-he-knew-joy-and-sorrow-felted-into-one-fabric-courage-and/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/i-am-writing-this-from-what-we-americans-call-yurrp-in-yurrp-writers/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) > [I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/i-write-because-i-like-to-write-i-find-joy-in-the-texture-and-tone/) [John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/john-steinbeck/#itemlist", "name": "14 Boys Quotes By John Steinbeck", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A boy becomes a man when a man is needed", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Steinbeck" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/a-boy-becomes-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/john-steinbeck-71_boys_a-boy-becomes-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed_2720405.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/john-steinbeck-71_boys_a-boy-becomes-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed_2720405.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/john-steinbeck-71_boys_a-boy-becomes-a-man-when-a-man-is-needed_2720405.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A boy becomes a man when a man is needed” — John Steinbeck", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "... every little boy thinks he invented sin.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Steinbeck" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented-sin/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/john-steinbeck-71_boys_every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented-sin_2373799.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/john-steinbeck-71_boys_every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented-sin_2373799.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/john-steinbeck-71_boys_every-little-boy-thinks-he-invented-sin_2373799.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“... every little boy thinks he invented sin.” — John Steinbeck", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. 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