"I didn't know adults could be changed. I……" — Kelly Corrigan
"I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried."
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19 Quotes by Kelly Corrigan
Kelly Corrigan has 19 quotes on this site.
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I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're…
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And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she…
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That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
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Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for…
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The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range.…
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Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives…
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He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited,…
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Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates…
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We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.
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It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In…
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We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that…
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If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when…
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More Adults Quotes
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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