John-steinbeck Quotes

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat...

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearan...

Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more important t...

It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the...

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, s...

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was...

Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

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

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to histo...

Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that...

I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can ta...

Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.

They got to live before they can afford to die.

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry ...

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existenc...

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...

I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.