Buck

Famous quotes containing the word buck:

    Not dancing but nearly risen
    Through barnlike, theatrelike houses
    On the winds of the buck and wing.
    James Dickey (b. 1923)

    The buck stops here.
    Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)

    Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
    —Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)