Ellen Goodman Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

  Ellen Goodman

  Parent, Missing, Traveler

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

• If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Education, Children, School

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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