1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.

I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

I'm glad there's love here. That's all.

We got to get thinkin' about doin' stuff that means somepin.

You got to think about that day, an' then the nex' day. Jus' take ever' day.

I never fixed no car in my life 'thout cuttin' myself. Now it's done I don't have to worry no more.

I was mean life a wolf. Now i'm mean like a weasel. When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted--that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong; maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong. I been hunted now for a long time. I ain't no hunter no more.

This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don' know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters.

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.