Famous Quotes | Al: Ain’t you gonna look back,...

Al: Ain’t you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look?
Ma Joad: We’re goin’ to California, ain’t we? Alright then, let’s go to California.
Al: That don’t sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life. - Nunnally Johnson
Attribution: Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977), U.S. screenwriter. Al (O.Z. Whitehead), Ma Joad (Jane Darwell), The Grapes of Wrath, as the Joad family sets out to California (1940).

Categories: California, Families, Losses, Screenwriter

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