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Small Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on…
- A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In…
- Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box…
- I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the…
- Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans
- Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives…
- A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is…
- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling…
- It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.
More Small Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. — Mahmoud Abbas