Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth Quotes

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.