Leaving Home Quotes

“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

“Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.”
― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories

“If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you?”
― Garrison Keillor (Author), Leaving Home

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain.”
― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

“It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. It was warm and bright and the trees were in full color, magnificent, explosive, like permanent fireworks — reds and yellows, oranges, some so brilliant that Crayola never put them in crayons for fear the children would color outside the lines.
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― Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home