Gerald Hausman Quotes

United States, Author
October 13, 1945

Gerald Andrews Hausman is a storyteller and award-winning author of books about Native America, animals, mythology, and West Indian culture. Hausman comes from a long line of storytellers and educators, and has published over seventy books for both children and adults.

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

Gerald Hausman
- Expect
- Bravery
- Heroism
We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

Gerald Hausman
- Fear
- Ourselves
- Beast

“There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven.

Gerald Hausman
- Heaven
- Stories
- Places
And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

Gerald Hausman
- Heart
- Head
- Keeping
If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.

Gerald Hausman
Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

Gerald Hausman