“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had… — 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
“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
“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
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“It is a child speaking," said Merlin, "not a king and not a knight, but a hurt and angry child, or you… — 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
“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
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
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 there were harebells, tiny lanterns, cream white and almost sinful looking, and these were so rare and magical that a child,… — 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
“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
“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live...” — 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 Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
