Ellen Goodman Quotes

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• Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
• Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
• Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.
• You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
• Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine…
• The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
• I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
• This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and…
• Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
• She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
• What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down…
• It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in…
• Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.
• Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.
• If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?
• Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
• When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.
• In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
• Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.
• Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a…

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