All John Steinbeck Quotes
- Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy… Beatin
- How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? Inspirational
- The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath. Break
- Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me,… Amen
- Intention, good or bad, is not enough. Bad
- Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. Ease
- Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created… Art
- Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch… Bunch
- I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept. All
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would… Any
- Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what… Bad
- If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone… Everyone
- The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and… Any
- Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the… Among
- it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. Build
- She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since… Accept
- And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. All
- Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one. Ahead
- It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet… Both
- There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers... Kind
- Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and… All
- How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You… Bellies
- But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been All
- He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure. Even Hurt
- It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden… Emotion