Top 44 Quotes About Grapes Of Wrath
#1. The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.
Samuel Eliot Morison
#2. The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24
Robert R. Mitchell
#3. The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.
Richard Corliss
#4. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ...
Julia Ward Howe
#5. And in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
The Grapes Of Wrath
John Steinbeck
#6. Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!
Richard Corliss
#7. 'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.
Frank Rich
#8. When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.
Nelson Mandela
#9. And in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck
#10. [Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman.
Costa-Gavras
#11. I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.
Larry McMurtry
#12. When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book.
Jay Parini
#13. When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.
Philipp Meyer
#14. Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes
#15. I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
Lou Holtz
#16. The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot
Napoleon Bonaparte
#17. I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.
John Steinbeck
#18. My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
Jane Fonda
#19. In the souls of the people The Grapes of Wrath are Filling and Growing Heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
Happy 112th Birthday John Steinbeck.
John Steinbeck
#20. You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath ... and even into the 70s.
Charlton Heston
#21. You got to think about that day, an' then the nex' day. Jus' take ever' day.
John Steinbeck
#22. Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.
John Steinbeck
#25. I never fixed no car in my life 'thout cuttin' myself. Now it's done I don't have to worry no more.
John Steinbeck
#28. Got a lot of sinful idears
but they seem kinda sensible.
John Steinbeck
#29. He'd given her the mother of all hangovers - a run-in with the wrath of grapes.
Kresley Cole
#30. We got to get thinkin' about doin' stuff that means somepin.
John Steinbeck
#34. We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men.
John Steinbeck
#35. I look like the wrath of grapes.
Jane Ace
#36. We'll start over. But you can't start. Only a baby can start
John Steinbeck
#37. I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn.
John Steinbeck
#38. The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness.
John Steinbeck
#39. And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
John Steinbeck
#40. An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.
John Steinbeck
#43. This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don' know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters.
John Steinbeck
#44. They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life.
John Steinbeck
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