Pearl Buck Quotes

Most popular Pearl Buck Quotes

All birth is unwilling. - Pearl Buck quote.
All birth is unwilling.
— Pearl Buck What America Means to Me

change

Hunger makes a thief of any man. - Pearl Buck quote.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
— Pearl Buck The Good Earth

hunger

Love dies only when growth stops. - Pearl Buck quote.
Love dies only when growth stops.
— Pearl Buck To My Daughters, With Love

love growth

One faces the future with one's past. - Pearl Buck quote.
One faces the future with one's past.
— Pearl Buck What America Means to Me

the past

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl Buck quote.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
— Pearl Buck To My Daughters, With Love

happiness growth

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. - Pearl Buck quote.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
— Pearl Buck The Joy of Children

work

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. - Pearl Buck quote.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
— Pearl Buck The Writer’s Book

communication

When hope is taken away from a people moral degeneration follows swiftly after. - Pearl Buck quote.
When hope is taken away from a people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
— Pearl Buck in The New York Times

hope

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members. - Pearl Buck quote.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
— Pearl Buck
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. - Pearl Buck quote.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
— Pearl Buck
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control. - Pearl Buck quote.
Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.
— Pearl Buck God’s Men: A Novel

anger

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. - Pearl Buck quote.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
— Pearl Buck To My Daughters, With Love

praise

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. - Pearl Buck quote.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
— Pearl Buck To My Daughters, With Love

service

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. - Pearl Buck quote.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
— Pearl Buck What America Means to Me

mistakes

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

China

All things are possible until they are proved impossible—and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. - Pearl Buck quote.
All things are possible until they are proved impossible—and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
— Pearl Buck A Bridge for Passing

impossible

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 Buck quote.
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 Buck My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

writers

The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease. - Pearl Buck quote.
The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
— Pearl Buck Harper’s

privilege

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl Buck quote.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
— Pearl Buck

excellence

Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. - Pearl Buck quote.
Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
— Pearl Buck The Exile

music

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. - Pearl Buck quote.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
— Pearl Buck To My Daughters, With Love

action

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. - Pearl Buck quote.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
— Pearl Buck To My Daughters, With Love

mother

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

youth impossible

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. - Pearl Buck quote.
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
— Pearl Buck
I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. - Pearl Buck quote.
I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
— Pearl Buck The New York Post

solitude

There were many ways of breaking a heart.  Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream—whatever the dream might be. - Pearl Buck quote.
There were many ways of breaking a heart.  Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream—whatever the dream might be.
— Pearl Buck The Patriot: A Novel

dreams

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as I may, they are two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two, focusing together, reveal the truth. - Pearl Buck quote.
Science and religion, religion and science, put it as I may, they are two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two, focusing together, reveal the truth.
— Pearl Buck A Bridge for Passing

science religion science & religion

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. - Pearl Buck quote.
Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
— Pearl Buck My Several Worlds

fate

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labour does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. - Pearl Buck quote.
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labour does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
— Pearl Buck

technology

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction. - Pearl Buck quote.
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
— Pearl Buck

nuclear

Food for all is a necessity.  Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy.  Food is a human necessity, like water and air, and it should be as available. - Pearl Buck quote.
Food for all is a necessity.  Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy.  Food is a human necessity, like water and air, and it should be as available.
— Pearl Buck To My Daughters, With Love

food

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word—excellence.
— Pearl Buck The Joy of Children

excellence

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
— Pearl Buck

faith atheist