Quote

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.

John Steinbeck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
Steinbeck
Book
Rivers
Bank
Warm
Pool
Hillside
South
Runs
Twinkling
Green
Yellow
Sands
Close
Sand
Slipped
Deep
River
Drops
Water
Reaching
Sunlight
Running
Miles
Narrow

More quotes by John Steinbeck

Image
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
John Steinbeck
Image
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
John Steinbeck
Image
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
John Steinbeck
Image
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
Image
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
John Steinbeck
Image
Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
John Steinbeck
Image
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. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
John Steinbeck
Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.
John Steinbeck
Image
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
John Steinbeck
Image
It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.
John Steinbeck
Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.
John Steinbeck
Image
I guess there are never enough books.
John Steinbeck
Image
Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.
John Steinbeck
Image
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.
John Steinbeck
Image
Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
John Steinbeck
Image
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
John Steinbeck
Image
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
John Steinbeck
Image
I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
John Steinbeck
Image
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck
Image
Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.
John Steinbeck