“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.” — 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 come from a whole goddam family of inventors," said Will. "We had ideas for breakfast. We had ideas instead of breakfast.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one. Will [Hamilton] had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited… — 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
“In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the Children were the children of all. The loss… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And here's a story you can hardly believe, but it's true, and it's funny and it's beautiful. There was a family of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The Western States nervous under the beginning change. Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, New Mexico, Arizona, California. A single family moved… — 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
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