Quotes Flashcards
Jim Casy
“Got a lot of sinful idears - but they seem kinda sensible”
Jim Casy
“Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of”
Jim Casy
“There was the hills, an’ there was me, an’ we wasn’t separate no more”
Jim Casy
“You got the right to do what you got to do”
Jim Casy
“All that lives is holy”
Jim Casy
“You fellas don’t know what you’re doin’. You’re helpin’ to starve kids”
Ma Joad
‘a superhuman understanding’
Ma Joad
‘the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken’
Casy on Ma Joad
“there’s a woman so great with love - she scares me”
Ma Joad
“we’re the people that live”
Ma Joad
“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need - go to poor people”
Ma Joad
“some die, but the rest is tougher”
Ma Joad
“Use ta be the fambly was first. It ain’t so now. It’s anybody”
Tom Joad
“they comes a time when the on’y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin’ a sock at a cop”
Tom Joad
“I know now a fella ain’t no good alone”
Tom Joad
“I’ll be ever’where - wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there”
Uncle John
“Go down an’ tell ‘em”
General
“The house was dead, and the fields were dead”
General
“Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back”
General
“For the quality of owning…cuts you off for ever from the ‘we’”
General
“only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on”
General
“And children…must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange”
General
“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage”
General
“the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath”
General
twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all
