"We owned what we learned back there; the……" — Ellen Goodman
"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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43 Quotes by Ellen Goodman
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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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Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
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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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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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