Pearl S. Buck Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Fall, Home, America

• 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

• What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Rights, House

• In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Reflection, Men, White

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.470, Open Road Media

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