Pearl S. Buck Quotes

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Pearl S. Buck

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• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Home
  • Book
  • Morning

• What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Life
  • Done
  • Success

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.

  

  Zendaya
  • Day
  • Hair
  • End

• I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Know
  • Development

• I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Goal
  • Very
  • Become

• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

  

  Flula Borg
  • World
  • Real
  • Explore

• Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Die
  • Storm

• I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Development
  • Fan
  • Arrested

• Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Community

• I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Faith
  • Agree

• When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I'm going to win. And I'll do it by any means necessary. If you're not willing to go that route, don't come my way.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Challenge
  • Win
  • Same

• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Want
  • Government
  • Quality

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

  

  B. B. King
  • Start
  • Street
  • Hometown

• I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Friends
  • Star
  • Laugh

• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Often

• I had no intention of returning into the British political debate, really at all, even though I've obviously got very strong views on it, until Brexit happened, because I think Brexit is a destiny-changing decision for my country.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Country
  • Political
  • Strong

• Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement of thought. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly---about any subject at all.

  

  William Zinsser
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Language

• All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Broken

• What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

  

  Pearl S. Buck