Patricia Polacco Quotes

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

  Patricia Polacco

  Children, Different, Different Times

  FaceBook post by Patricia Polacco from Feb 08, 2014

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• 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

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• 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, Book, Taken

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• 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

  FaceBook post by Patricia Polacco from Mar 24, 2014

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• 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

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

  Patricia Polacco

  Stars, Light, Sky

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• 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

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