Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Famous Quotes by Pearl S. Buck
Born: 1892-06-26
Died: 1973-03-06
Pearl S. Buck Biography
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible. And even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl S. Buck
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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I am mentally bifocal.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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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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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
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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.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
- Pearl Bailey
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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