- Candy Williams: Cherokee. That sounds sort of Indian-ish.
- Cherokee Lansing: Candy. That sounds sort of sticky-ish.
- John J. 'Johnny' Brady: [entering a bar, already quite inebriated] We're all together, like a bunch of bananas.
- Pinky Jimpson: It's oil that drives the ships, powers the trains and the planes and fills the traffic lanes. Yes sir, oil's a right valuable commodity, sought for and fought for all over the globe, in Arabia and Persia, Venezuela, Algiers and Mexico. But talk to an oilman anywhere and he'll tell you the oil capital of the world is Tulsa.
- Cherokee Lansing: I'm not selling.
- Bruce Tanner: Do you mind telling me why?
- Cherokee Lansing: Because I don't like the way you operate. You oilmen come into our country, pollute the streams, kill our cattle, yes, and our men, too.
- Bruce Tanner: You're being childish, like your Cherokee grandparents who shot arrows at the first locomotive. The wealth is under the ground, not on top of it.
- Pinky Jimpson: [to opera singer] Out in Oklahoma we hadn't had a chance to cotton up to that heavy-breathin' type of singin'.
- Brad Brady: Thanks, Seynatawnee.
- Jim Redbird: In Cherokee, 'Seynatawnee' means 'redhead'.
- Cherokee Lansing: But to you, Mr Brady, it means 'Boss'.