Quotes of: Cherokee Keyword

You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma,...

Daniel H. Wilson

So I picked the book up and did my usual 123 test. I don't bother reading the blurb on the back, or the first page - the writer's obviously going to be trying their hardest there, aren't they? It's how they're getting on by page 123 that's the real t...

Finding Cherokee Brown

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.

Lynn Collins

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

Kathie Lee Gifford

[Chunk finds the Fratellis' Cherokee] Chunk: ORV. Bullet holes. Bullet holes?

The Goonies

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

Wes Studi

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

Alice Walker

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

Loretta Lynn

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Martin Van Buren

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

Wilma Mankiller

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Wilma Mankiller

I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

Alessandra Ambrosio

Ethan: A fella could mistake you for a half-breed. Martin: Not quite, I'm eighth Cherokee, the rest is Welsh and English. Least that's what they tell me.

The Searchers

Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my '96 Jeep Cherokee.

Serge Schmemann

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Rashida Jones

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and town...

Cynthia Ozick

[Josey and Lone Watie are relaxing after Moonlight has cooked for them] Lone Watie: That meal was damn good. I'm gonna take up teepee livin' if it's like this. You know she thinks I'm some kind of a Cherokee chief. Josey Wales: I wonder where she eve...

The Outlaw Josey Wales

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men...

Stuart Scott

An old Cherokee told his grandson, 'My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, em...

Love

A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal ...

Wilma Mankiller

Harry Terwilliger: Paul, we're not gonna have some Cherokee medicine man in here whoopin', hollerin' and shaking his dick are we? Paul Edgecomb: Well actually... Toot-Toot: Still prayin'! Still prayin'! Gettin' right with Jesus! Harry Terwilliger: Do...

The Green Mile