"And it occurs to me that maybe the……" — Kelly Corrigan
"And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much."
—
Kelly Corrigan
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
19 Quotes by Kelly Corrigan
Kelly Corrigan has 19 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're…
-
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
-
Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for…
-
The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range.…
-
I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
-
Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives…
-
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited,…
-
Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates…
-
We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.
-
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In…
-
We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that…
-
If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when…
See all 19 quotes by Kelly Corrigan »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »