"The Good Earth" Quotes

Now, five years is nothing, except a man lose himself, and he does not lose himself a little at a time, the way he loses his money.

There was something strange about her, this second wife of his, and it was that strange something that held him.

The land is like all women. You have to love it with your fingers and your eyes, if you’re lucky enough to have the right kind of hands.

She was a woman who had worked in the fields every day of her life and she was not ashamed of it.

And this I know, that if I had lived with her, I should have loved her and she me and we should have lived in peace together.

Do you think that I will allow my own son to be like a poor man's son and a poor man's grandson?

It is better to be of low class, it is better to be a farmer, it is better to have the discipline of work, than to be a rich idler.

But I have never longed for wealth or things, and I have lost my sons. I do not know what it is that I have longed for.

When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways.

He could not understand why there should be this intense love, this passion of a man for a few acres of land.