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.
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
Cochise:
To talk of peace is not hard. To live it is very hard.
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
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.
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
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!
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
Tom Jeffords: Ah, among the white men, we wash it off.
Cochise: What a waste!
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
Drummond Hall:
Whenever I wake up a beautiful girl, I always make her breakfast.
--Jeff Chandler (as Drummond Hall) in Female on the Beach
--Jeff Chandler (as Drummond Hall) in Female on the Beach
Narrator:
Ah, yes, these were truly the days of wooden ships and iron men, but some of the iron was getting a little rusty.
--Jeff Chandler (as ) in Double Crossbones
--Jeff Chandler (as ) in Double Crossbones
[to Tom Jeffords]
Cochise: As I bear the murder of my people, so you will bear the murder of your wife.
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow
Cochise: As I bear the murder of my people, so you will bear the murder of your wife.
--Jeff Chandler (as Cochise) in Broken Arrow