Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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

• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Failure, Teaching

• I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Believe, Adults

• My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Children, Memories

• What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Neglect, Born

  "Children for Adoption". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 3, 1964.

• The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Responsibility, Opportunity

• 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

• The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Country, Children

• I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Home, Happy Life

• Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Taught Us, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Real, Long

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.502, Open Road Media

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