Quotes by Steinbeck, John

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was as >>

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

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

Quotations about People

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will >>

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with other >>

I am a deeply superficial person. >>

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

Steinbeck, John