A Quote by Phyllis McGinley

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
American - Author
March 21, 1905 - February 22, 1978

As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.

Eugene Ionesco

Forget the times of trouble, but not the truths they taught. Forget the days of sorrow, but not the strength they brought. Forget the storms you battled through beneath a heavy load - but not the light that led you safely down the unknown road.

Patience Strong

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.

Michael Dibdin

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

John Dufresne

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

Mark Lawrence

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Joe Biden

You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.

Henry David Thoreau

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

Don Johnson

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

Mason Cooley

Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.

Philip Roth

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

George Eliot

My view of Trump is that, while he has done some extremely noxious things, in general his worst feature, his most authoritarian feature, really is his public presentation.

Ross Douthat

Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

Pierre Loti

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Washington Irving

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

Colin Trevorrow

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Cornelia Meigs

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