Patricia Polacco famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All children have gifts, some open them at different times.
-- Patricia Polacco

#Children #Different
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

#Heart #People #Way
Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )
-- Patricia Polacco

#Sweet #Taken #Book
Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!
-- Patricia Polacco

#Children #Father #Book
Youâ€™d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!â€™.
-- Patricia Polacco

#Hug #Kitchen #Four
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!
-- Patricia Polacco

#Creativity #Practice #Knowing
Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.
-- Patricia Polacco

#Stars #Light #Sky
You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.
-- Patricia Polacco

#Kitchen #Hug #Different

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
There are different reasons to make movies.
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

Patricia Polacco famous quotes

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