| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f33982b | "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)" | silver the-good-earth work-ethic | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 43a4eed | "To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)" | land man nature pearl-s-buck the-good-earth | Pearl S. Buck |