"Cows run away from the storm while the……" — Wilma Mankiller
"Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo."
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33 Quotes by Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Mankiller has 33 quotes on this site.
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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about…
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I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin…
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It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each…
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We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
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Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
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The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that…
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If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and…
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Western movies always seemed to show Indian women washing clothes at the creek and men with a tomahawk or spear…
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Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
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My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in…
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It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee…
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I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left…
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Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence…
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At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the…
— Unknown Author
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Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire…
— James Alexander Thom
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The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede.…
— Ed Eyestone
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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