The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939

To reach California the Joads travel U.S. Highway 66. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"I'll be ever'where--wherever you look.  Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.  Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.  If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'--I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready.  An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why, I'll be there.  See?"

- Novel:  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
 ~~ Tom Joad

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