The Grapes Of Wrath Ma Joad Quotes

#1. What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

Joyce Meyer

#2. My advice to you, Elsie, is go with your heart, not your head, because your head doesn't know what it wants. It only thinks about the moral high ground. And if your heart isn't happy, when you try to share it, you'll make others unhappy too.

Sarah Alexander

#3. The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Andrew Jackson

#4. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. Whatever the issue was, it'd had the chance to ferment for a few days already.

Thea Harrison

#6. To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

Euripides

#7. Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

Seth Godin

#8. He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it.

Mary Doria Russell

#9. If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.

Dwight Schultz

#10. Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

Jerome K. Jerome

#11. They all memorized a simple phrase, "Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.

Damian Wampler

#12. Then along came that tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daiichi plant and, well, no one is building nuclear power plants in Japan now, are they?

Patricia Briggs