Cherokee/culture/marriage

Famous quotes containing the words cherokee, culture and/or marriage:

    “A Cherokee is too smart to put anything in the contribution box of a race that’s robbed him of his birthright.”
    —Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)

    “All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.”
    —Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)

    “Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)