Thought for Today ~


"Nothing is more essential to our lives than stories ~ the only things of equal importance are food, shelter, human love and some kind of religious activity."
~ Hugh Hood (1920 - 2000) Canadian novelist, university professor, quoted by John Metcalf in sixteen by Twelve.  Made Officer of The Order of Canada.


"I don't believe that those stories should be recorded by anybody except us.  I don't think that you have any right to come into my community and tell my stories for me.  I can speak for myself.  I share them with you, and you can read them.  And if you come into my circle, and I tell you the stories, then you should respect that you're invited into the circle."~ Maria Campbell.  Metis storyteller and writer, interviewed by Hartmut Lutz in Contemporary Challenges:  Conversations with Canadian Native Authors (1991). Author of seven books, award-winning playwright.


Source: FAMOUS LASTING WORDS Great Canadian Quotations,  John Robert Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre.