Cherokee/culture/marriage

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

    “Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
    —George Steiner (b. 1929)

    “Always the same old story—
    Father Time and Mother Earth,
    A marriage on the rocks.”
    —James Merrill (b. 1926)