Quotes About Resilience

There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.

Everyone has to be an orphan some time.

I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

Perhaps it is so with everyone, that he looks for weakness in the strong to find promise of strength in his weakness.

chuckling—the sound he made when any force in the world defeated him. He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

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

When shoes and clothes and food, when hope is gone we'll all have the rifle.

Here you play in the street, little chicken. Some day an automobile will run over you; and if it kills you, that will be the best thing that can happen. It may only break your leg or your wing. Then all of your life you will drag along in misery. Life is too hard for you, little bird.

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.

I don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference.

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

Flies conquer the flypaper.

Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

There's so much talk about justice, injustice, conquest. Our people are invaded, but I don't think they're conquered.

The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

Casy gathered in his canvas sneakers and shoved his bare feet into them. I ain't got your confidence, he said. I'm always scared there's wire or glass under the dust. I don't know nothin' I hate so much as a cut toe.

They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an' bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't so lonely anymore. An' then a hurt don't hurt so bad.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.

Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.

No se necesita valor para hacer una cosa cuando es lo único que puedes hacer.

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

A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty.

Maybe you've tumbled a world for me. And I don't know what I can build in my world's place.