Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of themโฆI think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You canโt make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.
John SteinbeckHard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesnโt return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.
John SteinbeckThere used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.
John Steinbeck