The Good Earth Quotes

“If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed!" (Buck, 65)”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

“To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth

“He laughed because he was free.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth