Children Quotes by John Steinbeck

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..

— John Steinbeck

“Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.”

— John Steinbeck

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

— John Steinbeck

“When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were…

— John Steinbeck

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them…

— John Steinbeck

“I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after…

— John Steinbeck

“Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.”

— John Steinbeck

“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

“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

“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live...”

— John Steinbeck

“They have one quilt and a piece of canvas for bedding. The sleeping arrangement is clever. Mother and father lie down together…

— John Steinbeck

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper…

— John Steinbeck

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its…

— John Steinbeck

“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

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds…

— John Steinbeck

“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

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy…

— John Steinbeck

“Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen.…

— John Steinbeck

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of…

— John Steinbeck

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is…

— John Steinbeck

“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

She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be…

— John Steinbeck

“We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an…

— John Steinbeck

“The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it. And the children…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they…

— John Steinbeck

“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of…

— John Steinbeck

“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

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

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

“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

“When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.”

— John Steinbeck

“If every single man and woman, child and baby, acts and conducts itself in a known pattern and breaks no walls and…

— John Steinbeck

“Then there were harebells, tiny lanterns, cream white and almost sinful looking, and these were so rare and magical that a child,…

— John Steinbeck