Time Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 4

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see…

— John Steinbeck

“The little engine roared and then stopped. Adam sat back for a moment, limp but proud, before he got out. The postmaster…

— John Steinbeck

“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.”

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

— John Steinbeck

Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or…

— John Steinbeck

“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted…

— John Steinbeck

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

— John Steinbeck

“Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but simply…

— John Steinbeck

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,…

— John Steinbeck

“He always tell what it will be like someday." "Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.”

— John Steinbeck

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change…

— John Steinbeck

“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing,…

— John Steinbeck

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

— John Steinbeck

“The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled, but the women knew how the past would cry to them in…

— John Steinbeck

“In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the…

— John Steinbeck

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

— John Steinbeck

“Through my own efforts, I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.”

— John Steinbeck

'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,'…

— John Steinbeck

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

— John Steinbeck

“Sad as they were at his moral decay, the friends were not a little jealous of the good time Danny was having.”

— John Steinbeck