Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Monday, Work

• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Change, Pain, Fear

• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Family, Mother, Children

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sweet, Time, Grandma

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

• At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Morning, Water, Cooking

  Pearl S. Buck (2004). “The Good Earth”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

• Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Dream, Kindness

• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

• 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 S. Buck

  Education, Children, Teaching

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