Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

“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.”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”

“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.”

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

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”

“Love alone could waken love.”

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”

“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 an...”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”

“One faces the future with one's past.”

“And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and...”

“To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.”

“Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.”

“Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.”

“Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and ha...”

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

“This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.”