Phyllis McGinley Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• 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

• The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Exercise, Animal, Understanding

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

• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Cake, Comfort, Caviar

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

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