John Steinbeck Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John Steinbeck quotes, John Steinbeck sayings, and John Steinbeck proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

You don't even know where I'm going. I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere. John Steinbeck
Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough. John Steinbeck
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts. John Steinbeck
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner. John Steinbeck
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. John Steinbeck
To be alive at all is to have scars. John Steinbeck
In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground. John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. John Steinbeck
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. John Steinbeck
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot. John Steinbeck
People don't take trips, trips take people. John Steinbeck
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
Perhaps it takes courage to raise children. John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. John Steinbeck
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. John Steinbeck
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. John Steinbeck
What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us. John Steinbeck
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. John Steinbeck
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse. John Steinbeck
Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world. John Steinbeck
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. John Steinbeck
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why. John Steinbeck
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence. John Steinbeck