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."
      • "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."
    • 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."

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