Great Depression In The Grapes Of Wrath Quotes & Sayings

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man. — Edouard Manet

'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

And the girl pulled whatever she could find deep inside her soul, from all the pain, and the hurt, and the fear. — Neil Gaiman

Life is a lifetime opportunity to make the right choice to be great. — Debasish Mridha

There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles. — Anthony Marra

I would see him, Edward.'
It was no request; he knew it to be an ultimatum. He shook his head violently, not trusting his voice. Time passed. She was staring at him, saying nothing, and on her face was a look of stunned disbelief, of anguished accusation he knew would haunt him for the rest of his life. But when she spoke, her voice held no hint of tears. It was not a voice to offer either understanding or absolution, spoke of no quarter given, of a lifetime of love denied.
'God may forgive you for this,' she said, very slowly and distinctly, 'but I never shall. — Sharon Kay Penman

Nothing is less trustworthy than a woman's tears. — Wataru Watari

First the strangers came with argument and authority and gunpowder to back up both. And in the four hundred years Kino's people had learned only one defense - a slight slitting of the eyes and a slight tightening of the lips and a retirement. Nothing could break down this wall, and they could remain whole within the wall. — John Steinbeck

One's my favorite number. The word won being the past tense of win, and we can all say at the end of the day that we won once again, can't we? Some days making it to the end of the day is quite a victory. — Jennifer Brown

Embraced in Isaac's wings, I decided that change wasn't such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn't wait to explore. — Cherie Colyer

Love is the only thing that counts. Love is what keeps the star and the human beings and the world turning around. Love is the force that binds the whole universe together. — Paulo Coelho

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment. — Nhat Hanh

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

You cannot say, "I will look it up." Your birthday and social security number are things you look up; trigonometric functions and identities are what you know all the time. — Ramamurti Shankar