John Steinbeck Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

  John Steinbeck

  Orange, Color, Gold

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.10, Penguin

• And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

  John Steinbeck

  Jewels, Greed, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

• Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Jewels, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

• I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Fall, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.233, Penguin

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