Pearl S. Buck
Full Name: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
AKA: Sai Zhenzhu
Birthdate: June 26, 1892
Birthplace: Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.A.
Date of Death: March 6, 1973
Occupation: Author and Teacher
Profile: Awarded the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. First woman to be
awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. Best known for
The Good Earth.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_s_buck
Number of Quotes: 8
Once the what
is decided the how
always follows. We must not make the how
an excuse for not facing and accepting the what.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted
by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Last on Earth
