Quotes by Steinbeck, John

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think yo >>

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was >>

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lones >>

Quotations about Nostalgia

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talk >>

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. >>

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. >>

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

Steinbeck, John