Apaches Quotes:

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Thinking, Apaches, Useless

If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.

- Quentin Tarantino

source: "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

topic: Wife, Guy, Apaches

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.

- Geronimo

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Break Up, Freedom, Native American, Prairie, Apaches

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

- Geronimo

source: Geronimo (2012). “Geronimo: My Life”, p.33, Courier Corporation

topic: Honor, Express Yourself, Chiefs, Wronged, Apaches

Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.

- Geronimo

source: Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.32, Open Road Media

topic: Mother, Children, Warrior, Supplies, Apaches

I was born where there were no enclosures.

- Geronimo

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Born, Enclosure, Apaches, Native America, Native American Earth

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

- Geronimo

topic: Sleep, Wind, People, Sleep Well, Apaches

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

- Geronimo

topic: Children, Thinking, Wind, Apaches

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

- Geronimo

topic: Government, Racism, Soldier, Wronged, Misdeeds

There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core, then there's no point in sending more Humvees and Apaches.

- Bruce Riedel

topic: Military, Iraq, Broken, Debacles, Apaches

She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's favorite, Big Foot, dying in the snow at Wounded Knee. "Isn't that where the massacre was?" asked Ellen. "Yes. I'm going to go there when I'm grown up. To Wounded Knee." "That seems sensible," said Ellen.

- Eva Ibbotson

source: Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

topic: Feet, Snow, Crow, Wounded Knee, Apaches

The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don't want them and if it means that these Shia mobilization forces are going to be going after and trying to kill Americans.

- Adam Schiff

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Mean, President, Trying, Mobilization, President Barack Obama

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

topic: Funny, Military, Small Numbers, Apaches