Joseph Bruchac Quotes

• It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Wisdom, Native American, Expression

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• Los mejores profesores me han enseñado que las cosas hay que hacerlas poco a poco. Nada que signifique algo ocurre rápidamente, sólo lo pensamos. El movimiento de tensar un arco y enviar una flecha directa al blanco sólo dura una fracción de segundo, pero es una habilidad que lleva muchos años. Lo mismo ocurre con una vida, la vida de cualquiera.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• Los mejores profesores me han enseñado que las cosas hay que hacerlas poco a poco. Nada de eso significa que algo suceda rápidamente - sólo pensamos que lo hace.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.

  Joseph Bruchac

  War, Grandchildren, Thinking

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.89, Penguin

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• We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Song, Nature, Sacred Places

  Joseph Bruchac (1999). “No borders: new poems”, Holy Cow Press

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• Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Strong, Paper, Strong Words

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.27, Penguin

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• Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Soldier, Enemy, Pretending

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.81, Penguin

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• There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Past, People, Grandparent

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• As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Long, Remember, Our Family

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• Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Understanding, Easy

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Doubt, Guilt, Needs

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• Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Real, People, Culture

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Pain, Fear, War

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.89, Penguin

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• One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. As an Onondaga friend put it to me, "you can't pick berries until the berries are ripe."

  Joseph Bruchac

  Native American, Waiting, Importance

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Una historia es una carga que hay que llevar con tanto cuidado como llevamos a un niño dormido

  Joseph Bruchac

  Children, Sleep, Stories

  Joseph Bruchac (1996). “Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred”, Fulcrum Pub

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• If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Mother, Believe, Long

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• Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

  Joseph Bruchac

  Fate, Events, Shapes

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• Cuando un reportero blanco le preguntó al líder lakota Toro Sentado por qué su pueblo le quería y respetaba, Toro Sentado respondió preguntando si no era cierto que entre los blancos se respeta a un hombre porque tiene muchos caballos, muchas casas? Cuando el reportero respondió que eso era cierto, Toro Sentado dijo entonces que su pueblo le respetaba porque no guardaba nada para sí.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Horse, Men, White

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• A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Libro, Personaje, Escritura

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There is a kind of certainty that seems to characterize Jared Smith's best work, an understanding about place and the flow of spirit that makes you think of Thoreau along with a commitment as fierce as that of Pablo Neruda.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Commitment, Thinking, Make You Think

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