1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow. ...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Adam fluttered like a bewildered bee confused by too many flowers.

I wonder if he had a Cathy and who she was.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

The Carmel is a lovely little river. It isn't very long but in its course it has everything a river should have. It ... tumbles down a while, runs through shallows, ... crackles among round boulders, wanders lazily under sycamores, spills into pools where trout live ... In the winter, it becomes a torrent, ... and in the summer it is a place for children to wade in and for fishermen to wander in.

Bleedin' like a son-of-a-bitch," he said. "Well, I can stop that." He urinated on the ground, picked up a handful of the resulting mud, and plastered it over the wound.