Pearl S. Buck Quotes

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck

Faith, Work, Hope

I am mentally bifocal.
Pearl S. Buck

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Pearl S. Buck

Love, Together, Same

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck

Before, Wanted, Child

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck

Good, Men, Struggle

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck

Religion, Strength, May

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

Happiness, Growth, Germ

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck

Life, Marriage, Good

One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck

Future, Past, Faces

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. Buck

Wise, Words, Inevitable

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck

Life, Cannot, Old

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
Pearl S. Buck

Women, Men, Possession

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
Pearl S. Buck

Men, Free, Rather

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck

Nothing, Destroy, Relentless

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck

Beauty, Order, Depends

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck

Heart, Blame, Season

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
Pearl S. Buck

Women, Men, Between

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck

Life, Truth, Speak

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck

Enough, After, Young

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

Hope, Death, Eat

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
Pearl S. Buck

Country, Heaven, Won

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck

Evil, Race, Shadow

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck

Power, Strength, Fool

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 6, 1892

Died: March 6, 1973

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