"If John Lennon was right that life is……" — Kelly Corrigan
"If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice."
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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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I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
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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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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
— Antonio Banderas
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Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although…
— Dave Barry
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The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
— Bob Beauprez
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the…
— Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.
— Emma Bell
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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too,…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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