Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Change, Pain, Fear

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• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Cheer

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• What the common man cannot understand he hates.

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  Hate, Men, Common

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.145, Open Road Media

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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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  Family, Mother, Children

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• A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

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  Foreigners

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• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

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  Love, Change, Anniversary

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• Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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  Generations, Betrayed, Young

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.129, Open Road Media

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• But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

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  Book, Her Beauty, Care

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• The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

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  Creative, Mind, Fields

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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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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  Life, Beautiful, Work

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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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  Love, Family, Mom

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

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

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  Hope, Peace, Freedom

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

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  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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  Daughter, Mother, Son

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• 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.

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  Children, Believe, Adults

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• music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

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  Music, Beautiful, Technique

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• 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.

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  Home, Men, Needs

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

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  Men, Save Yourself, Ifs

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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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  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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

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  Sweet, Time, Grandma

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

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• The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

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  Country, Real, United States

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

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  Children, Failure, Teaching

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

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  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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  Work, Teaching, Learning

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

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• We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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  Country, Diversity, Heaven

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