Patricia Polacco Quotes

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

Patricia Polacco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1944

Topics

PeopleIdeasColorsLovedKnow

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

Joanna Lumley

LiveWantEitherThenBritain

I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

Jill McCorkle

GodMeAngelStoryYouSay

We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

John Key

SmallFeelNewTrueEconomyLimit

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

SuccessManFameQuestionHimTrade

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

Matt Dillon

MagicActingTeachersSpontaneous

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Spalding Gray

ChaosEverythingContingentAlso

I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.

Roustam Tariko

BeginningPeopleYoungPossibleLike

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

Michael Keaton

CoolBrothersCompareSistersThem

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

I AmWritingYouKnowCircumstances

I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

Don McLean

MusicTravelWorldThoughtTrying

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I'm still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

DJ Khaled

MeYouKnowSaidNeverGet

I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.

Brock Osweiler

PositiveWinMindsetTryAlways

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