35 Quotes by Patricia Polacco

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

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

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

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.

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" )

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

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.