Mankiller Cherokee Quotes

#1. There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

Miranda July

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

Wilma Mankiller

#3. I'm not afraid of death, just of dying.

Duane Hewitt

#4. Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.

Wilma Mankiller

#5. He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action, who has found that centre of balance which is always over his point of contact with circumstances. He is the man whom Nature pours the riches of all her instincts.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

#6. Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.

Abby Lee Miller

#7. Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization ...

Greg Bear

#8. As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Wilma Mankiller

#10. What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met!" "I loved everything I saw!

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. No one marries for love, except in stories. People marry for property and position, and one day so will you.

Judith James