Quotes About Geronimo

#1. For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.

Osama Bin Laden

#2. Geronimo [is] ... an example of our practice of destroying those who oppose us and then honoring them.

Howard Fast

#3. Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit.

Peter Matthiessen

#4. It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.

Salman Rushdie

#5. If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

Walter Hill

#6. Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

Pat Morita

#7. Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

Johnny Bench

#8. I won the vote but shunned the soft parade
[ ... ]
I won every battle and lost the war
(Geronimo)

Shannon McNally

#9. He had thought it through, even though following his own logic was a bit like tracking a shadow through a tunnel, he was never sure the idea he was tailing at the exit was the same idea he had been following at the entrance.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#10. After the welcome home barbecue, Candice had said, People here aren't that different, they just have accents. But if she could hear this, how their plan was being twisted, it would rock her little white-girl world, as Louis had always called it.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#11. 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

#12. College makes you smart. It doesn't make other people stupid. I'm not so sure it makes you so smart, to have a second say.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#13. Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

Geronimo

#14. We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

Geronimo

#15. Loving means sharing what you have however big or small it may be!

Geronimo Stilton

#16. While living I want to live well.

Geronimo

#17. 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

#18. I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

Geronimo

#19. I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

Geronimo

#20. 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

#21. It felt like a reunion after an embarrassing absence. The affection and appreciation were earnest, but things had changed so much no one knew what to say.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#22. The table was shocked. The entire class in fact. They'd heard tell of Civil War reenactments, but they were still occurring? The War Between the States was another time and another country. As was the South. Are barbers still surgeons? Is there still sharecropping? What about indoor plumbing?

T. Geronimo Johnson

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

Geronimo

#24. Fire isn't flavor, but the Big Green Egg, that ingenious ceramic capsule of goodness, that Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of cookout equipment, both grill and smoker - God bless! - was

T. Geronimo Johnson

#25. Micro-aggression - The plastic gun of racism; you can sneak this one through security most of the time because it is comprised of nonracist ways of being racist, nonsexist ways of being sexist, and the like. E.g., You're not like other BLANK people, or, You speak English very well.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#26. Atlanta's nickname was well earned; a Chocolate City indeed it was.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#27. The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#28. Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects believe it to be better than the religion of my fathers

Geronimo

#29. I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It's right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.

Geronimo Pratt

#30. At the San Francisco airport Charlie discreetly pulled Daron aside and asked if there was anything he needed to know, if he should expect more crazy-Colonel-Sanders types of people in Braggsville.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#31. 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

#32. A relationship is like a road trip: You get bugs splattered on the windshield. By the time you see them, it's too late, but you still keep going.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#33. Meet the New World, same as the Old World.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#34. Don't curse a child for doing childish things, but don't 'courage him none neither.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#35. He blew time like he had it to spare, like it grew on clocks instead of died there.

T. Geronimo Johnson