Grapes Of Wrath Ruthie Quotes & Sayings

I'll show these people how a curtsy is done, even if I am wearing soggy boots and a bloody pair of pants. Literally. There's blood on them, and I can't get it out, no matter how hard I scrub. At least it's not mine. — Amanda Bouchet

With your hand controlling all the input and your eye reading all the response you can make them a god . . . and somebody'll do the same for you. — James Tiptree Jr.

A nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country. — Frances Wright

What's his offense?
Groping for trout in a peculiar river. — William Shakespeare

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him. — Albert Schweitzer

No, tequila makes me throw up. Vodka makes my clothes fall off." I grin and sip my water. "You might want to take notes. — Kristen Proby

If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes. — Charles Bowden

But his big, round music, after all, is too breathy to last. — Mary Oliver

With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play. — George C. Wolfe

Reading had always been another world for him. Not an escape, since he rarely sought escape ... writers had to confront the world if they were going to observe it accurately ... but another world nonetheless. One filled with powerful voices relaying even more powerful thoughts. — Dan Simmons