The Journey of Crazy Horse Quotes

“The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“And as the old men warned, power does not listen with honest ears to the whispers of the powerless.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“A mounted buffalo chase was one of the most exciting things a man could do. There was always the risk of injury and death, but having once hunted buffalo from the back of a horse, no man could resist trying it over and over again. It was one thing to wait in ambush along a trail for black-tailed or white-tailed deer or at a waterhole for the white-bellied pronghorn, but chasing buffalo was the pursuit of life itself, testing one’s nerves and skills to the limit as fast as a horse could run.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“Rarely did anyone dream of the Thunders, and anyone who did had a special calling to be a “sacred clown,” the one who did the opposite of what was expected.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“Memory is like riding a trail at night with a lighted torch, some of the old ones liked to say. The torch casts its light only so far, and beyond that is the darkness.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“Ghosts, the old warriors said, were the price a fighting man paid to follow the path of the warrior;”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“... a boy will learn the way of the warrior from his fathers and grandfathers after he learns courage from his mothers and grandmothers.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“In any land among any kind of people, three human weaknesses are at the root of trouble— fear, anger, and arrogance.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“Worm, like all old ones, knew there were many unavoidable realities in life— some good and some bad. The sun rises and sets; warm spring weather follows quickly when the geese fly low. And broken hearts are as certain as snow in winter.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

“... as every good warrior knows, the deadliest weapons a man carries into battle are not in his hands. Rather, the boldness in the heart and the willingness of the mind are always the difference.”
― Joseph M. Marshall III, The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History