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Top 25 Joseph Bruchac Quotes (2024 Update)

Joseph Bruchac Quote: “A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child.”

1. “A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.”

2. “Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.”

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

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “If I’ve learned one thing in the last few days it is that every question does not need to be answered. A story is not true just because of it’s literal veracity. It is the message, what it teaches, that counts.”

4. “If I’ve learned one thing in the last few days it is that every question does not need to be answered. A story is not true just because of it’s literal veracity. It is the message, what it teaches, that counts.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly – we only think it does.”

5. “The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly – we only think it does.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “It is not hard work, because all work together... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.”

6. “It is not hard work, because all work together... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “This,” I said, “could be the start of a beautiful friendship.”

8. “This,” I said, “could be the start of a beautiful friendship.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “Like most of those who seek to harm the weak, he’s a coward at heart.”

9. “Like most of those who seek to harm the weak, he’s a coward at heart.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.”

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

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “Hmm. I’m tempted. But what works against my temptation is the ancient junior high code of Omerta. Nobody squeals on nobody, no matter what.”

12. “Hmm. I’m tempted. But what works against my temptation is the ancient junior high code of Omerta. Nobody squeals on nobody, no matter what.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.”

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

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “Like the meaning of my name, questions follow me wherever I go.”

15. “Like the meaning of my name, questions follow me wherever I go.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “I wish you had been there with me in that picture,” he used to say to Wilsie and me. “It is so lonely being there forever without another Indian.”

16. “I wish you had been there with me in that picture,” he used to say to Wilsie and me. “It is so lonely being there forever without another Indian.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “But I didn’t care. I just wanted to be close to them and feel their presence. I felt as if I were in there with them, looking out of their eyes, sharing their thoughts.”

17. “But I didn’t care. I just wanted to be close to them and feel their presence. I felt as if I were in there with them, looking out of their eyes, sharing their thoughts.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “So it was that five days later, on the 22nd of March, I walked with Samoset back into my own village. Once Patuxet, now it was Plymouth. I looked around me. Though much was changed, I knew that I at last had returned to the land of my home.”

18. “So it was that five days later, on the 22nd of March, I walked with Samoset back into my own village. Once Patuxet, now it was Plymouth. I looked around me. Though much was changed, I knew that I at last had returned to the land of my home.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “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?”

19. “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?”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “He’s taken courses on things like animal tracking, making a fire with a bow drill, building survival shelters in the forest. Now, my being an Indian, you might imagine I would know about all that stuff. But most Indian kids, even those on the rez, are not learning those things anymore. They’re too busy doing all the things other kids do – watching DVDs, playing Xbox games, and downloading rap music on their iPods.”

20. “He’s taken courses on things like animal tracking, making a fire with a bow drill, building survival shelters in the forest. Now, my being an Indian, you might imagine I would know about all that stuff. But most Indian kids, even those on the rez, are not learning those things anymore. They’re too busy doing all the things other kids do – watching DVDs, playing Xbox games, and downloading rap music on their iPods.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “I’ve had a lifelong fascination with bears. Their gentleness and their strength has always touched something deep in me.”

22. “I’ve had a lifelong fascination with bears. Their gentleness and their strength has always touched something deep in me.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “My story is both strange and true. I was born in the year the English call 1590. My family were leaders of the Patuxet people and I, too, was raised to lead. But in 1614 I was taken to Spain against my will. Now it is 1621 and I am again in my homeland. My name is Squanto. I would like to tell you my tale.”

23. “My story is both strange and true. I was born in the year the English call 1590. My family were leaders of the Patuxet people and I, too, was raised to lead. But in 1614 I was taken to Spain against my will. Now it is 1621 and I am again in my homeland. My name is Squanto. I would like to tell you my tale.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “A year is plenty of time to fit in, right? Like a square peg is going to fit into a round hole if you just give it time? You could say that when I arrived here in the middle of my seventh-grade year I settled into a well-defined niche that was purely my own and remains so in eighth grade. The niche of a minuscule, mouthy Mohawk misfit. And nothing is going to change that.”

24. “A year is plenty of time to fit in, right? Like a square peg is going to fit into a round hole if you just give it time? You could say that when I arrived here in the middle of my seventh-grade year I settled into a well-defined niche that was purely my own and remains so in eighth grade. The niche of a minuscule, mouthy Mohawk misfit. And nothing is going to change that.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “Perhaps this creature had once been a human, but his lust for power had been so great that he had done the things needed to transform him into a monster bear.”

25. “Perhaps this creature had once been a human, but his lust for power had been so great that he had done the things needed to transform him into a monster bear.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “That story I loved so much as a child has become all too real to me now. But I’m not the boy in that old story who could run forever without tiring. I don’t have a bow and arrow. No weapons at all.”

26. “That story I loved so much as a child has become all too real to me now. But I’m not the boy in that old story who could run forever without tiring. I don’t have a bow and arrow. No weapons at all.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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Joseph Bruchac Quote: “She’s always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.”

28. “She’s always suggesting books like a literary marriage broker, wedding readers to the titles just right for them.”

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