Quotes About Cannery Row

#1. Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

John Steinbeck

#2. Doc was more than first citizen of Cannery Row.
He was healer of the wounded soul and the cut finger.

John Steinbeck

#3. He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

#4. [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

John Steinbeck

#5. In spiritual warfare, faith is the currency that releases your prayer. It is the instrument (or weapon, if you like) that activates and sets loose the answers to your prayers.

Pedro Okoro

#6. It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

Olivia Wilde

#7. It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. And then the men lay down and put their heads in the girls' laps and looked up into their faces. And they smiled at each other, a tired and peaceful and wonderful secret.

John Steinbeck

#9. My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.

Hee-seop Choi

#10. And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

John Steinbeck

#11. Most everyone lived twice in those days. They echoed their own steps. They took one step in the real world and one in their space. They saw double, through eyes and monocle displays. They danced through worlds like veils.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. I say to all who are legally here, that you will be welcome to stay.

Andrea Leadsom

#13. This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February ...

John Prescott

#14. There is, of course, a lot of disagreement on Earth about whether demons actually exist, what they want, and how much of the tax code they are responsible for.

Robert Kroese

#15. To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

Eunhyuk

#16. MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.

John Steinbeck

#18. How odd that people could be so ugly, not particularly because of appearence, but because of the atmosphere of judgemental bad temper and discontent they carried around with them

Beaton, M.C.

#19. It is the hour of pearl - the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

John Steinbeck

#20. We need to be on guard against greed ... above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

Billy Graham

#21. I would like to work in both comedy and drama.

Daniela Bobadilla

#22. That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done. Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done that way.

John Steinbeck

#23. Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

Michael Hintze