Cochise sayings

Here are some famous sayings attributed to Cochise, the prominent leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe:

1. "It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand."

2. "When it is time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived."

3. "The white man does not understand the Indian for the same reason that the Indian does not understand the white man."

4. "I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun."

5. "The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies."

6. "I want to know what you are doing and where you are going. I want to know what you are doing and where you are going."

7. "The white man made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."

8. "The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it."

9. "We are all children of the Great Spirit; we all belong to Mother Earth."

10. "It is not the power of the spirit that is at fault, but the power of the flesh."

Above is Cochise sayings.