409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

The first peaches of spring – the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness. He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.

So Wang Lung sat, and so his age came on him day by day and year by year, and he slept fitfully in the sun as his father had done, and he said to himself that his life was done and he was satisfied with it.

We are compelled to choose,” he sometimes complained, “between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.

Wang Lung, seeing them, was fit to burst with pride at this procession of his goodly sons, who were to continue after him the life of his body;.

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

There was no need to hurry that future – yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?