"We're never ready for the things that happen.……" — Kelly Corrigan
"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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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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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 Always Looking Quotes
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make…
— Orlando Bloom
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're…
— Jeff Bridges
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own…
— Raquel Welch
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking…
— Jean Paul
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We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies…
— Ezra Hall Gillett
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
— Pema Chodron
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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,…
— Norman Rockwell
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Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.
— Dennis Rodman
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I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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