"Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our……" — Ellen Goodman
"Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made."
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43 Quotes by Ellen Goodman
Ellen Goodman has 43 quotes on this site.
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for…
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe…
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.…
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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence…
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
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What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The…
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It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to…
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Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.
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