“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.” PeopleYearsChildrenHelpingOrderGivenPlanetsHelping OthersHelping Other People Author:Phyllis McGinley
“The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.” PeopleNeedsHeartLongHas BeensHomeTodayAmericaVirtueResourcesHarderConstantEastPrivacyElsewhereDefectsDesirableInconvenientRugged Author:Phyllis McGinley
“Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.” PeopleHas BeensMadeLastsSinHalfCenturySickUglyFrightenedImmatureUnderprivileged Author:Phyllis McGinley
“The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.” PeopleHumansDreamSecretTalentAmbitionOrdinarySaintDesperateExcessModerationOrdinary PeopleVitalityGood WillWildnessExuberance Author:Phyllis McGinley
“People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.” PeopleSinSickFrightenedImmatureUnderprivileged Book:The province of the heart Source: The province of the heart
