Buck

Famous quotes containing the word buck:

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

    Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far- reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
    —Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)

    Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
    —Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)