Patricia Polacco Quotes

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

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" )

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.

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.