“If every single man and woman, child and baby, acts and conducts itself in a known pattern and breaks no walls and… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco “the City”. Of course it was the only city… — 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
“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
Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They… — 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
“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
“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
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
