"The Grapes of Wrath" Quotes

I figgered about 600 miles. That’s a whole lot of miles. I figger about 50 miles a day.

I been in McAlester pen four years. I been in McAlester pen five years.

You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.

Use’ ta be the city men took the water outa the country. Now they’re pumpin’ it back.

It’s all right. I ain’t gonna worry about it. There’s a lot of folks worse off than what we are.

The quality of owning freezes you forever in “I,” and cuts you off forever from the “we.”

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.

It ain’t right. It ain’t right. We can’t let ‘em starve.

If it was the law they was workin’ with, why, we could take it. But it ain’t the law. They’re a-working away at our spirits.

Seems like every time you come in, I got to be takin’ out somethin’.