17+ Kelly Corrigan Quotes On Friendship, Happiness And Pbs

Kelly Corrigan is an American writer and public speaker. She is best known for her memoirs, The Middle Place and Glitter and Glue. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Tell Me More. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kelly Corrigan on life, friendship, leadership.

You have to speak your dream out loud. — 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. — Kelly Corrigan

Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely pause to scratch your ankle. — Kelly Corrigan

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything. — Kelly Corrigan

Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all the same, there you are, clutching the phone and thanking God that you're still somebody's daughter. — Kelly Corrigan

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game. — Kelly Corrigan

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime. — Kelly Corrigan

We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it. — Kelly Corrigan

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief. — Kelly Corrigan

It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap. — Kelly Corrigan

My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what I wanted to say to smart, funny, self-effacing Ellen McCarthy after I finished reading The Real Thing. I loved every lesson laid out in a book that wouldn't dare to call itself a field guide to marriage but amounts to as much on every page. This is a deeply useful little book. — Kelly Corrigan

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children. — 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

We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction. — Kelly Corrigan

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right? — Kelly Corrigan

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried. — Kelly Corrigan

Life Lessons by Kelly Corrigan

1. Kelly Corrigan teaches us to be kind and understanding, to appreciate the little moments in life, and to always be thankful for what we have.
2. She encourages us to be brave, to take risks, and to be open to new experiences and opportunities.
3. Her work shows us that it is possible to find joy in the everyday and to be resilient in the face of adversity.