Pearl S. Buck Quotes

A collection of quotes by Pearl S. Buck.

Pearl S. Buck was an American author and humanitarian. Born in 1892 in West Virginia, she spent the majority of her childhood and early adulthood in China, where her parents were missionaries. Buck gained international recognition for her novel, "The Good Earth," which highlighted the struggles of a Chinese farming family. This work earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She dedicated her life to promoting understanding between East and West and addressing social issues. Buck's profound impact on literature and advocacy for human rights make her a significant figure in 20th-century American history.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull withou

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do tha

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.

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

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

Life

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

Truth Women Race Minority

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull witho

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

Life Truth

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kind

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Faith

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Beauty

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

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

Work

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfill

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Communication

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starv

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Death

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a hum

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.

Alone

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is edu

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Work

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Religion

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the ai

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.

Education

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Caroline Wozniacki

Women

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in

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

Change

One faces the future with one's past.

One faces the future with one's past.

Future

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Death

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Relationship