Phyllis McGinley Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Hug, Praise

• God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mother, Children, Women

• These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

  Phyllis McGinley

  Love, Daughter, Children

  Phyllis McGinley, “Sunday Poetry: Ballade Of Lost Objects”

• For little boys are rancorous
  When robbed of any myth,
  And spiteful and cantankerous
  To all their kin and kith.
  But little girls can draw conclusions
  And profit from their lost illusions.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

• Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Children, Women

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

• Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Helping Others, Order

• Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Children, Ambition, Twenties

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