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Dragon Seed QUOTES

Dragon Seed QUOTES

1 " Hope must come out of what we have, or it is not hope, but a dream. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

2 " It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

3 " many a woman would have let her mind lie idle while she worked in the fields, but I have ever seen this difference between you and other women, that your mind cannot be idle, and I say I never know what is coming out of you. And so I never tire of you, old woman. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

4 " rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast. And the noise of the battle grew more strong, hour by hour. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

5 " This country of his was not like some others he had heard of, where only in war was there work enough to be done. He had often sat listening in the tea shop to those who talked of things they had seen in foreign countries, and this he held was a main difference, that in foreign countries war was a business, but here it had never been. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

6 " All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

7 " Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

8 " This seems right to them today and that tomorrow and they do not know that one man’s mind cannot say what is the true right for another. No, in their pride of a little learning they rush out to do evil "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed

9 " Questo è il motivo per cui mi sono tagliata i capelli. Volevo venderli per comperarmi un libro. Allora avevo paura di dirtelo, ecco perché ti parlai di orecchini. Ma è un libro, che voglio. "

― Pearl S. Buck , Dragon Seed