# Quote — John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America

> The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

- Author: [John Steinbeck](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md)
- Book: [Travels with Charley in Search of America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/travels-with-charley-in-search-of-america/the-sound-of-a-jet

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> I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.

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> Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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> When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

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