Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 3

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• Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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  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.

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  Heart, Grows

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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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• 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?

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  Book, Her Beauty, Care

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Grateful, Long

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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.

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  Yield, Wind, Civilization

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

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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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• To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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  Hope, Peace, Bread

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To the Young)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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

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  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

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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

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  Men, Save Yourself, Ifs

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• One faces the future with one's past.

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  Time, Memories, Motivation

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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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• The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

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  Country, Real, United States

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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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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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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.

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  Rich

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

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• Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

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  Men, Debt, Lost

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• On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

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  Love, Earth, Without Love

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• there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

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  Guides, Reciprocity, One Word

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• I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

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  Two, People, Sorrow

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• All birth is unwilling.

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  Birth, Unwilling

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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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• 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

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  Light, Soul, Mind

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