American - Novelist | June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck
LifeI AmThinkHeavenWonderEarth
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
ImpossibleGenerationEnoughAchieve
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
AgePainFeelJudgeYouNew
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
PeopleNothingRelentlessDestroy
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
LifeChildAmericanWayUsOur
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
WorkFaithHopeI AmWaitingBook
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
ImpossibleNowPossibleThingsMay
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
HopeDeathBreadEatWithoutStill
I am mentally bifocal.
I AmMentallyAm
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
AgeOld AgeWorldHandsMeditation
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.
DogGodTruthTruth IsSilentSaw
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
GrowthHappinessGermItself
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