Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Pearl S. Buck Quotes Click here for Pearl S. Buck books A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 3) "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." "There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are." "A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass." "Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless." "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." "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." "Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession." "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." "This ignorant arrogant mind has become fixed in its patterns. It is the pattern which considers anything not American to be inferior — unless it be English." "One does not live half a life in Asia without return. When it would be I did not know, nor even where it would be, or to what cause. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. The friendly country of China, the home of my childhood and youth, is for the time being forbidden country. I refuse to call it enemy country. The people in my memory are too kind and the land too beautiful." "Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break." "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation." "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." "None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." "Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy." "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." "You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." |
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