Years Quotes by John Steinbeck

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they…

— John Steinbeck

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find…

— John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that…

— John Steinbeck

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It…

— John Steinbeck

I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in…

— John Steinbeck

Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am…

— John Steinbeck

I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of…

— John Steinbeck

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.…

— John Steinbeck

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

— John Steinbeck

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

— John Steinbeck

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a…

— 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

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.

— John Steinbeck

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old…

— John Steinbeck

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

— John Steinbeck

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

— John Steinbeck