Source: The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided
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Famous Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Source: Good Earth
“Life is stronger than death.”
Source: A Bridge for Passing
Source: The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”
“Hunger makes a thief of any man.”
Source: The Good Earth
“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”
Source: A Bridge for Passing
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”
“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.”
“Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
Source: The Goddess Abides: A Novel
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.”
Source: Of Men and Women
“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.”
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
“It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.”
Source: Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
Source: Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters