Cherokee Indian Quotes:

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

- Robert Muller

topic: Attitude, Silence, Mind, Spiritual Indian, Elders

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

- Chief Seattle

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Peace, Indian, Indian Wisdom

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

- Crowfoot

topic: Life, Running, Nature, Indian Tribes, Indian Wisdom

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On, Indian, Indian Wisdom

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

- Crowfoot

source: "Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Book by ‎Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

topic: Sunset, Native American, Firefly, Indian Tribes, Spiritual Indian

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

- Crazy Horse

topic: Children, Parent, Earth, Indian Wisdom, Spiritual Indian

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

- Black Elk

source: Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

topic: Strong, Circles, Long, Indian Wisdom, Spiritual Indian

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

- Lynn Collins

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

topic: Cherokee, Cherokee Indian

My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

- Meagan Good

source: "Meagan Good: The Unborn Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 20, 2009.

topic: Mother, Dad, Father, Cherokee, Cherokee Indian

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

topic: Funny, Mother, Father, Cherokee, Cherokee Indian

She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains.

- Jay Mohr

topic: Sex, Rain, Causes, Cherokee, Cherokee Indian

I was called "T-Bow" but the people got it mixed up with "T-Bone." My name is Aaron Walker but "T-Bone" is catchy, people remember it. My auntie gave it to me when I was a kid. Mother's mother was a Cherokee Indian full blooded. There were sixteen girls and two boys in my mother's family, all dead but two.

- T-Bone Walker

topic: Girl, Mother, Kids, Cherokee, Cherokee Indian