409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs because for her they are true and necessary? She would be lost without them, for by them she has lived and by them she mustdie. But you and l—we must have our own beliefsto live and die in

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.

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

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

We must have hope or starve to death.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.