Quotes About Cannery

#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. No need to get a rumor heading through town that would end up like one of the salmon on the conveyor belt down at the cannery, the head and tail of the story cut off and the middle butchered up until it became something unrecognizable.

Sere Prince Halverson

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

John Steinbeck

#4. What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."

Boots Riley

#5. My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Dolores Huerta

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

John Steinbeck

#7. [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

#8. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

Barack Obama

#9. 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

#10. Do me the kindness of at least scraping me from the bottom of your shoes.

Kels Adeline Sapp

#11. Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

Alexander Osterwalder

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

John Steinbeck

#13. Courage leads you to win battles everyone may lose.

Israelmore Ayivor

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

John Steinbeck

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

John Steinbeck

#16. I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

Gertrude Stein

#17. 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

#18. I was thinking of murder, mutilation and dessert like Ignacia Sandoval's instructions for delectable empanadas made of minced mother-in-law's tongue (said to induce peace and harmony in your household), or the gonads of your cheating husband (a savory dish to add spice to your lovemaking).

Sandra Ramos O'Briant

#19. As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.

Jerzy Kosinski

#20. Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Wendell Berry

#21. She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added, "be pompous.

John Flanagan

#22. People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.

Mike Krieger