Creeks Quotes

• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Years, Pockets

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

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• There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Sea, Fishing

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• If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

  Miranda Kerr

  Clouds, Relax, Watches

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• And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Dream, Falling In Love

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 22, 2011

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• And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

  Chris LeDoux

  Stuff, Baths, Made

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• Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stones, Stepping Stones, Crosses

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• It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Book, Night

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

  Sara Evans

  Christian, Inspiration, Lord

  Sara Evans, Rachel Hauck (2011). “Softly and Tenderly”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Earth, May, Lovers

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic

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• Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Feminist, Suffering

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• The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

  Jim Hightower

  Water, Clear, Hog

  Bill Moyers Journal, April 30, 2010.

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• There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Land, Made

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• God willing and the creek don't rise

  Benjamin Hawkins

  Gods Will, Willing

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• Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Rain, Mirrors, Sky

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• For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Lonely, Heart, Cities

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.5, Booklassic

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  Dan Rather

  Wisdom, Alligators, Taunting

  "Sign-off" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2005.

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• I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

  Jon Hamm

  Dad, Teenager, Guy

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• Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Ambition, Imagination

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• Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

  Jim Fowler

  Rivers, Revenue

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• There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Stars, Land

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Baby, Grace, Fever

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

  Ezra Cornell

  Summer, Fall, Tunnels

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• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Love, Running, Art

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• I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Thinking, Church, Battle

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• The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

  David Ogilvy

  Dollars, Advertising, Promotion

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