Cimarron Quotes
Spirit: And so I grew from colt to stallion, as wild and as reckless as thunder over the land. Racing with the eagle, soaring with the wind. Flying? There were times I believed I could.
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Spirit: I couldn't understand it. She treated this scrawny two-legged like one of our kind, prancing around him like a love-struck yearling. It was down right unnatural.
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Spirit: I couldn't understand it. She treated this scrawny two-legged like one of our kind, prancing around him like a love-struck yearling. It was down right unnatural.
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Spirit: I had been waiting so long to run free, but that goodbye was harder than I ever imagined. I'll never forget that boy and how we won back our freedom together.
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Spirit: I remember the first time I saw a rattler curled up in my path. This one didn't look like a rattler, but I was still thinkin' 'snake'.
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Spirit: The story that I want to tell you cannot be found in a book. They say that the history of the west was written from the saddle of a horse, but it's never been told from the heart of one. Not till now. I was born here, in this place that would come to be called the Old West. But, to my kind, the land was ageless. It had no beginning and no end, no boundary between earth and sky. Like the wind and the buffalo, we belonged here, we would always belong here. They say the mustang is the spirit of the West. Whether that west was won or lost in the end, you'll have to decide for yourself, but the story I want to tell you is true. I was there and I remember. I remember the sun, the sky, and the wind calling my name in a time when we ran free. I'll never forget the sound and the feeling of running together. The hoof beats were many, but our hearts were one.
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Spirit: The story that I want to tell you cannot be found in a book. They say that the history of the west was written from the saddle of a horse, but it's never been told from the heart of one. Not till now. I was born here, in this place that would come to be called the Old West. But, to my kind, the land was ageless. It had no beginning and no end, no boundary between earth and sky. Like the wind and the buffalo, we belonged here, we would always belong here. They say the mustang is the spirit of the West. Whether that west was won or lost in the end, you'll have to decide for yourself, but the story I want to tell you is true. I was there and I remember. I remember the sun, the sky, and the wind calling my name in a time when we ran free. I'll never forget the sound and the feeling of running together. The hoof beats were many, but our hearts were one."
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The Colonel: There are those in Washington who believe the West will never be settled, the Northern Pacific Railroad will never breach Nebraska, a hostile Lakota will never submit to providence. And it is that kind of small-minded thinking that say this horse will never be tamed. Discipline, time, and patience are the three great levelers.
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The Screamer: Now, Marshal, you ain't told me the charges.
Marshal Jim Crown: Stampedin' chickens on the Sabbath.
Marshal Jim Crown: Stampedin' chickens on the Sabbath.
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The Screamer: You ever face me man to man, you're gonna be black, blue and bloody red all over.
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Yancy Cravat: Louie Heffner, as coroner do your official duty and remove the body.
Louie Heffner: Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I'll start it with this burial.
Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.
Louie Heffner: Okay, Yancy. It was self-defense and justifiable homicide. This town needs a Boot Hill and I'll start it with this burial.
Yancy Cravat: Fellow citizens! Under the circumstances, we will forego the sermon and conclude this service with a brief word of prayer.
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Dulcey Coopersmith: You look worried - I can tell.
Marshal Jim Crown: I'm always worried when I work this town.
Dulcey Coopersmith: No, this is something special - this girl getting killed tonight.
Marshal Jim Crown: I told you when you came to Cimarron there'd be more killin' than laughin'.
Marshal Jim Crown: I'm always worried when I work this town.
Dulcey Coopersmith: No, this is something special - this girl getting killed tonight.
Marshal Jim Crown: I told you when you came to Cimarron there'd be more killin' than laughin'.
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Grand Duke Nicolai: [to Conchita Eolita] We could have made beautiful music together but you played the wrong balalaika.
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Marshal Jim Crown: Where are you from? Somewhere down South?
Joe Wyman: Maryland.
Marshal Jim Crown: Well, the next time you talk about where this man belongs, you just try to remember where you were back when you were eight years old in Maryland. This place didn't exist. There wasn't any Cimarron Strip. There wasn't anything here but Comanche hunting grounds. It took the cavalry six long bloody years to make this place fit for citizens like you. Well, it doesn't matter whether Sergeant Disher was among 'em or not...
Trooper Eldridge: He was.
Marshal Jim Crown: Well, I'd say Sergeant Disher has as much right here as you have. Maybe more.
Joe Wyman: Maryland.
Marshal Jim Crown: Well, the next time you talk about where this man belongs, you just try to remember where you were back when you were eight years old in Maryland. This place didn't exist. There wasn't any Cimarron Strip. There wasn't anything here but Comanche hunting grounds. It took the cavalry six long bloody years to make this place fit for citizens like you. Well, it doesn't matter whether Sergeant Disher was among 'em or not...
Trooper Eldridge: He was.
Marshal Jim Crown: Well, I'd say Sergeant Disher has as much right here as you have. Maybe more.
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Mrs. Tracy Wyatt: One of my ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Sol Levy: That's all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.
Sol Levy: That's all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.
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Mrs. Tracy Wyatt: One of my ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Sol Levy: That's all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.
Sol Levy: That's all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.
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Sabra Cravat: Do you feel nervous about your sermon, dear?
Yancy Cravat: I'd rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.
Yancy Cravat: I'd rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.
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Sol Levy: They will always talk about Yancy. He's gonna be part of the history of the great Southwest. It's men like him that build the world. The rest of them, like me... why, we just come along and live in it.
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Spirit: I remember the first time I saw a rattler curled up in my path. This one didn't look like a rattler, but I was still thinkin' 'snake'.
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Ted Carson: Dobie and Shad should be waitin' for us at the top of the grade.
McCord: You know, kid, I've just been thinkin'. What's the use of us playing Santa Claus?
Ted Carson: Whaddya mean?
McCord: Why split the gold four ways when you don't have to?
Ted Carson: Sure, that's only good arithmetic!
McCord: You know, kid, I've just been thinkin'. What's the use of us playing Santa Claus?
Ted Carson: Whaddya mean?
McCord: Why split the gold four ways when you don't have to?
Ted Carson: Sure, that's only good arithmetic!
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Yancy Cravat: I'll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that's a pretty good slogan! Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column!
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Yancy Cravat: Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country.
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[caption at the beginning of the film]
Caption: In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma Lands for white settlement... 2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming across the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd.
Caption: In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma Lands for white settlement... 2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming across the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd.
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[Dobie "toasts" Ted Carson, the Sonora Kid]
Dobie: The Sonora Kid is a gentle lamb / His fleece is black as snow...
[Ted shoots the whiskey bottle out of Dobie's hand]
Ted Carson: Nobody asked your opinion.
Dobie: What's eatin' you?
Ted Carson: I don't like your brand of humor. Next time, I'll aim at your funny bone.
Dobie: The Sonora Kid is a gentle lamb / His fleece is black as snow...
[Ted shoots the whiskey bottle out of Dobie's hand]
Ted Carson: Nobody asked your opinion.
Dobie: What's eatin' you?
Ted Carson: I don't like your brand of humor. Next time, I'll aim at your funny bone.
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