Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 3

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• Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Failure, Success And Failure, Success Failure

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• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Failure, Teaching

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• Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Angel, Two, Glasses

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• It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Heart, Capacity To Love, Important

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• I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Believe, Adults

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• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Food Banks, Poverty

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• No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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  Work, Teaching, Learning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

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  Together, Want, Able

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

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  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Generations, Betrayed, Young

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• the heart never grows old.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Heart, Grows

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• But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Her Beauty, Care

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• Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Empty, Idealism And Realism

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

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  Love, Family, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Country, Diversity, Heaven

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Yield, Wind, Civilization

  "China, Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 1, 1972.

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• Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Save Yourself, Ifs

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• We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

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• there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

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  Two, Roots, Light

  Pearl S. Buck (1958). “American Triptych: Three John Sedges Novels”

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• Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

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  Mistake, Failure, Positive Thinking

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.10.

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• Most mothers kiss and scold together.

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  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rich are always afraid.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Rich

  Pearl S. Buck (2004). “The Good Earth”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Race, Evil, Diversity

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.1.

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• All birth is unwilling.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Birth, Unwilling

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