Beans are a roof over your head. Author: John Steinbeck Copy Quote More from John Steinbeck “I see hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches with their bindles…” “The last clear definite function of man—muscles aching to work, minds aching to…” “He bathed in icy water and scrubbed and scratched his body with a block of pumi…” “Suppose it were true—Adam, the most rigidly honestman it was possible to find, …”