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Years Quotes by John Steinbeck
- I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.
- A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was…
- I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of…
- For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.
- A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years…
- And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory…
- Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and…
- You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
- We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest…
- The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and…
- We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
- But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand…
- The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure…
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz