143 Quotes by Ellen Goodman

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

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 the fleeting video of time.

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.

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.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.