Quotes About Tom Joad

#1. 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

#2. The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

John Steinbeck

#4. No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Well, we all got to make a livin'."
"Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

John Steinbeck

#6. High expectations and belief in people leads to high performance so very often belief creates fact.

Paul Hersey

#7. My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.

Chris Milk

#8. The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

Mason Cooley

#9. Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.

Tom Perrotta

#10. One of us could always get pancreatic cancer," you said pleasantly.

Lionel Shriver