Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Pearl S. Buck on Wise Famous Quotes.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)
Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.
The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.
Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
The superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind.
To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.