409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

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.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

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

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.