Buck

Famous quotes containing the word buck:

“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)

“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.”
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)

“Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.”
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)