A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“In the case of acupuncture, the time period must also be considered. On a fine day, the sun shining, blood in the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Then Wang Lung turned to the woman and looked at her for the first time. She had a square, honest face, a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
