Grapes of Wrath quotes
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- The Grapes of Wrath quotes
- Time
- "How will we know it's us without our past?"
- "Up ahead they's a thousand lives we might live, but when it comes it'l on'y be one."
- Violence
- "Every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness."
- "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
- "A torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of it's going."
- "Each green bayonet."
- Family
- "She walked for the family and held her head straight for the family."
- "The twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all."
- "The family stood about like dream walkers."
- "No misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole."
- Inhumanity
- "The machine man driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry."
- "Cars whisking by on 66. License plates."
- "When a majority of of the people are cold and hungry they will take by force what they need."
- "Goggled him and muzzled him - goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest."
- Humanity
- "Go down in the streets an' rot an' tell 'em that way."
- Inhumanity
- "The machine man driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry."
- "Cars whisking by on 66. License plates."
- "When a majority of of the people are cold and hungry they will take by force what they need."
- "Goggled him and muzzled him - goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest."
- Inhumanity
- "Go to poor people. They're the only one's that'll help - the only ones."
- "That man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the Earth."
- "Go down in the streets an' rot an' tell 'em that way."
- Faith
- "Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is."
- "Maybe all men got on big soul ever'body's a part of."
- "The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue."
- "Where does the terrible faith come from."
- "His little piece of soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole."
- Environment
- "The grey country and the dark red country began to disappear under a green cover."
- "The wind cried and whimpered over the fallen corn."
- Wealth
- "If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself."
- "The monster - has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die."
- Death
- "Death was a friend, and sleep was death's brother."
- "I'm gettin' tired way past where sleep rests me."
- "The Earth became pale."
- "Central ribs of strength grew weak."
- Pain
- “Her hazel eyes... have mounted pain and suffering like steps into a high calm and a superhuman understanding.”
- "I'm jus' pain covered with skin."
- Women
- "Remote and faultless in judgement as a goddess."
- "Citadel of the family."
- ""It's women's work," she said finally."
- "Men sang the words, and women hummed the tunes."
- Accomplishment
- "Man... grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
- "There is a failure here that topples all our success."
- Time
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