409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

The Empress Mother said with still more irritation, “I cannot understand why we must have a foreign religion here when we have three good religions of our own.

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor’s. “He who raises his head above the heads of others,” Mr. Kung said, “will sooner or later be decapitated.

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country’s good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

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

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be