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Mother Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

10 Mother quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck’s literary eye turns toward the mother’s role, weaving cultural insight with personal sentiment. In this short collection of ten passages you’ll sense her belief that motherhood shapes both individual lives and broader societal narratives.

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Most mothers kiss and scold together.

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“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and…

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

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

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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping…

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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that…

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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.…

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Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be…

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The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility.…

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“Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the…

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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…

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“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,…

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu”

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“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people…

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,…

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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to…

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