Patricia Polacco Quotes

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

Patricia Polacco

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeTimeCityMomMy LifeFarm

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

Joe Strummer

ThinkMouthBackGoForgetRadio

When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this funding, this financing. Pull this actor out, this actor is still here but this money's gone. It's this frightening puzzle mosaic that is the world of independent film.

Jill Soloway

MoneyWorldPuzzleYouActorOut

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

John Abraham

StrengthBabyActorFollowDirector

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

Joel Fuhrman

PositiveChildhoodEnvironmentalBody

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Stefan Hell

WisdomDoingAlwaysThingsCommon

As a black man in America, I have lived the truth.

Ron Stallworth

TruthManBlackAmericaLived

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'

Luke Scott

FreedomOceanManSwimmingDestiny

I feel like there's something interesting to learn from anyone's story, no matter their place in society. I think we've gotten really far away from that - we're in such a celebrity-obsessed culture.

Liz Goldwyn

CultureSocietyStoryThinkLearn

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.

Cormac McCarthy

HomeTeacherSchoolNameHobby

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

Bode Miller

MusicMomGrowing UpElectricityUp

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Anthony Edwards

GoodPerspectiveParentingThinkOwn

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

ContentmentSimplyAfterRefined

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