Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

They were looking for a home but..

A

All they found was hatred

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2
Q

What is ma described as

A

‘The citadel of the family’

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3
Q

There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no..

A

Virtue just people doin stuff

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4
Q

Fella gets used…

A

To a place it’s hard to go, fella gets used to a way of thinking it’s hard to leave’

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5
Q

Now the dust..

A

Was evenly mixed with the air

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6
Q

And the women came out of..

A

Their houses to stand behind their men

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7
Q

The corn was fallen..

A

Sideways and the dust was piled on it

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8
Q

Boosting and dragging..

A

His shell along

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9
Q

I’m always scared there’s..

A

Wire or glass under the dust

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10
Q

The bank was a..

A

Monster which had ensnared them

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11
Q

The ground vibrated..

A

With its thunder

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12
Q

Graveyard..

A

Ghosts

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13
Q

They tractored..

A

All the tentants off the land

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14
Q

There ain’t nothing..

A

Left

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15
Q

This is the machine..

A

Age

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16
Q

I got a car…

A

We’re going to California

17
Q

The tenant people sifted their…

A

Belongings and the belongings of their fathers and their grandfathers

18
Q

The houses are empty..

A

The land is empty

19
Q

The house was dead,..

A

And the fields were dead but this truck was the active thing

20
Q

Matching man driving…

A

A dead tractor on the land

21
Q

His home is..

A

Not the land

22
Q

The rich..

A

California valleys

23
Q

People flight from…

A

The terror behind them

24
Q

The family became..

A

A unit

25
Q

The dog dodged…

A

Helplessly with a shriek

26
Q

I lost my land a single..

A

Tractor took my land I am alone

27
Q

Cars full of stoves an pans…

A

An mattresses an kids an chickens

28
Q

The highway became…

A

Their home

29
Q

It ain’t good for…

A

Folks to break up

30
Q

Twenty families became…

A

One family

31
Q

They say a thousand…

A

Men are on their way to this field

32
Q

He found that he jus got..

A

A little piece of a great big soul

33
Q

Fear went from their faces and…

A

Anger took its place

34
Q

Worse off we get..

A

The more we got to do

35
Q

And now they were weary and frightened..

A

As they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them

36
Q

The bank is something more than men I tell you…

A

Men made it but they can’t control it

37
Q

Women and children knew deep…

A

In themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole

38
Q

Piled in johns house..

A

Like gophers in a winter burrow

39
Q

She walked..

A

For the family