Patricia Polacco Quotes

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

Patricia Polacco

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• I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Lost
  • Hurt
  • Realize

• I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Love
  • New York
  • London

• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Girl

• I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Country
  • Love
  • American

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Family
  • You
  • Tease

• This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Love
  • Strong

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• There are no rules when it comes to love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Rules

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Relationship

• I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

  

  Mohandas Dewese
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Energy

• I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.

  

  Nathaniel Cotton
  • God
  • Best
  • Depend

• My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • Love
  • Fundamentally