Cherokee Lansing Quotes in Tulsa (1949)

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.

Candy Williams: Cherokee. That sounds sort of Indian-ish.

Cherokee Lansing: Candy. That sounds sort of sticky-ish.