Broken Arrow (1950)

Jeff Chandler: Cochise

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Quotes 

• Cochise : You know what I am thinking? Maybe someday you will kill me, or I will kill you. But we will not spit on each other.

• Cochise : To talk of peace is not hard. To live it is very hard.

• Cochise : White Painted Lady, I have old wounds.

  Sonseeahray : Yes, but each scar is a mark of love for your people. The path of your people is stretched long behind you, and you are the head, and you are the heart, and you are the blood. Killer of Enemies was your father and you are his son. You will be well.

• Cochise : You should always wipe your hands on your arm after eating, tall one. The grease is good for them.

  Tom Jeffords : Ah, among the white men, we wash it off.

  Cochise : What a waste!

• Cochise : Now I say this: the Americans keep cattle but they are not soft or weak. Why should not the Apache be able to learn new ways? It is not easy to change, but sometimes it is required. The Americans grow stronger while we grow weaker. If a big wind comes, a tree must bend... or be lifted out by the roots.

• Cochise : I break the arrow. I will try the way of peace.

• [to Tom Jeffords] 

  Cochise : As I bear the murder of my people, so you will bear the murder of your wife.

• Geronimo : I trust none of it. Four days ago, we were given our territory on a piece of paper. Today, we cannot go into Mexico. The American general says 'No.' Already our territory is smaller. Where will we get corn, blankets, horses if not by taking them from the Mexican as we always have?

  Cochise : The American government will give us cattle. We will raise them and trade them for our needs.

  Geronimo : The answer of a woman.

• Cochise : Take your women. Your children. Your horses. Your weapons. Leave our territory.

  Geronimo : I leave you my name also. Now I am ashamed to be a Chiricahua. I will take the name Mexican enemies have given me. The whites will learn it. And you will learn it. From now on, I am Geronimo.

  Cochise : If Geronimo or his followers come to this territory again, let them com with weapons.