Kelly Corrigan Quotes

The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

Kelly Corrigan

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Possible

• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Everyone

• You don't fight ideas with bombs.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!

  

  Ted Williams
  • Future
  • Game
  • Question

• I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Change
  • Government
  • Style

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Always

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Children
  • Feel
  • Loved

• Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Alone

• This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Long
  • Women
  • Kids

• When I was a child, I spent all my spare time looking at birds and insects (beetles). My color use, and the object quality of the 'painting', and the use of fragmentation is closer to birds and beetles and fish, than it is to De Stijl or the Constructivists.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Painting

• I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

  

  Shooter Jennings
  • People
  • Kids
  • Responsibility

• The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

  

  Kelly Corrigan
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Truth