The Cherokee Trail Quotes

“A family is a place where a body can share the no-account things, can talk of the little matters important only to ourselves, where we can laugh and cry and tell of the day-by-day happenings and then forget them.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“If one has a book, Mr. Boone, One is never alone. They will talk to you when you want to listen, and when you tire of what they are saying, you just close the book. It will be waiting for you when you come back to it.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail

“Manage your own money. Let nobody else do it no matter how well they think they can handle it. Always keep your own money in your own hands!”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“If you want to be civilized, ma’am, you’re going to have to fight to protect it, or all the civilized will be dead, and we will be back in the darkness of savagery.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“One must never marry a man thinking he will change or that you will change him. If he does or you do, then he will not be the same man you married, and the less for it.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“Men were expected to handle their own difficulties, and courage was the most respected virtue, with integrity a close second. Many a man whom you might call a thief with impunity would shoot you if you called him a liar or a coward.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“MRS. BREYDON, TEMPLE Boone has assured us”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“go. It was close enough, yet out of sight of the station.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“standing there, looking about. He reached into his vest pocket and took out his watch, glanced at it, then returned it to his pocket and walked back to his office. Jordy Neff was waiting”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel

“was.” “I knew, Mr. Stacy.” “Was it some old quarrel? Something that happened”
― Louis L'Amour, The Cherokee Trail: A Novel