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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
— Patricia Polacco
Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
— Patricia Polacco
Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?
— Jennifer Walkup
My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
— Patricia Polacco
- Chickens have a twenty-minute memory. We primates cope through booze and denial. Dial up more of that denial part, you'll last longer.
— Ellen Datlow
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
— Patricia Polacco
My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
— Patricia Polacco
All children have gifts, some open them at different times.
— Patricia Polacco
Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
— Patricia Polacco
I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
— Patricia Polacco
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
— Willard Van Orman Quine
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
— Patricia Polacco
You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.
— Miley Cyrus
Mirad had asked for peace for his birthday.
Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present.
When I heard that I cried. — Ad De Bont
Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present.
When I heard that I cried. — Ad De Bont
Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
— Patricia Polacco
Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.
— Patricia Polacco
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
— Patricia Polacco
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
— Patricia Polacco
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
— Will Durant
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
— Patricia Polacco
You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.
— Patricia Polacco
I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation.
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
— Patricia Polacco
The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
— Nhat Hanh
You'd have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!'.
— Patricia Polacco
Every film is a new adventure, and I always meet new cast and crew members that blow my mind.
— Gabriel Campisi
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
— Patricia Polacco
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
— Patricia Polacco
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
— Patricia Polacco
All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take from it - did it make you laugh, cry, or seek and want justice? Then it's true.
— Patricia Polacco