Best Creeks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“She saw night lights in the rooms of the babies who dreamed soft seersucker dreams, drugged happy with the heat, their pink baby bodies curled against worn out cotton, not fearing Hitler yet, their strong, tiny hearts beating in unison with the trees and the creeks and the bayou”

Trees Babies Cotton Creeks Bayou Seersucker

Book:Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.”

Shows Language Felt Perfect My Favorite Shocking Creeks

Author:Busy Philipps

“Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.”

Littles Age Together Three Watches Childhood Adventure Block Hanging Out Really Great Buddy Sixteen Creeks Radius Stand By Me

Author:Scoot McNairy

“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!”

Looks Light Seems Sun Land Fronts Gains Window Tired Silent Wave Painful Climbs Inches Eastern Daylight Flooding Creeks

Author:Arthur Hugh Clough

“Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.”

People Years Firsts Mean Eye Black Fields College Depression Lonely Empty Illness Woods Critical Mental Illness Routes Cemetery Creeks Semester Lonely Places

Author:Samantha Abeel

“I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.”

Children Said Play Water White Tree Childhood Fields Clouds Surface Golden Giants Sand Dragons Customs Shore Warning Yellow Floats Dip Daisies Odor Creeks Dandelions Thistles White Clouds

Author:Williston Fish

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

Term Dollars Advertising Promotion Short Term Creeks Opportunist Short Sighted

Author:David Ogilvy

“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, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.”

Art Real Running Half Art Is Rivers Stones Species Feminist Gender Tiny Cracks One Half Flawless Creeks Subjugation Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“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'?”

Should May Art Joy Imagination Ambition Feminist Theme Introducing Incapable Flawless Creeks Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.”

Years Art Stills Important Matter Strong Century Rivers Intelligent Historical Brilliant 20th Century Abstraction Amusing Modernism Minimalism Creeks Figurative Art

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”

Mean Found Water Holes Bitter Pool Commodity Courtesy Liquid Muddy Creeks

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.”

Sun Wind Rain Crosses Seasons Seeds Cosmic Secrecy Creeks

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that's a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is 'rate, hike.' We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that's in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They're all good looking and they're all rich. And folks, you just can't beat that and you just can't beat Georgia Southern. And you ain't seen nothin yet!”

“I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking.”

Hard Wanted Film Young Purpose Walks Clear Walking Directors Skills Theater Victim Sticks Torture Hard Times Killers Brutal Young Women Spine Creeks Credentials Tracking Mutilation

Author:Roger Ebert

“Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.”

Feelings Levels Greater Becoming Rain Rivers Skins Presses Glasses Welcome Boredom Reign Palms Rushing Ponds Combining Creeks Becoming Something

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“God willing and the creek don't rise”

Willing Gods Will Creeks

Author:Benjamin Hawkins

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

Water Clear Hog Creeks

Author:Jim Hightower

“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.”

Men Form Water Magic Sea Land Draws Rivers Fishes Boat Hills Streams Lakes Fishing Creeks Over The Hill

Author:Herman Melville

“What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is!”

Sea Rocks Rivers England Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Trout Creeks

Author:Thaddeus Norris

“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself”

“My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'”

Character Bigs Guy Next Boys Roles Study Doors Models Casts Dirty Role Models Jocks Creeks

Author:Gabriel Mann

“I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.”

Earth Mother Water Animal Company Taken Oil Damage Mother Earth Creeks Oil Companies

Author:Winona LaDuke

“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.”

Guy Havens Dad Tiny Eras Teenager Creeks

Author:Jon Hamm

“The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”

“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.”

Thinking Want Night Forget Cities Wonder Pieces Sky Information Scary Stranger Warm Tiny Amiable Creeks Time Of Day

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz

“The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.”

Needs Littles Government Able Jobs Night Lost Process Water Environmental Winter Spots Shade Cows Engineers Flood Our Past Noon Owl Pastures Creeks Winter Night

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.”

Reason Water Rivers Environmental Rounds Improvement Flood Creeks

Book:A Sand County almanac: With other essays on conservation from Round River

Source: A Sand County almanac: With other essays on conservation from Round River

“... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.”

“If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.”

Ifs World Way Humans Has Beens Stories Earth Sin Happenings Capacity Originals Including Tribes Storyteller Inability Original Sin Creeks Human Capacity

Author:Gerald Hausman

“I am beginning to understand that the stream the scientists are studying is not just a little creek. It's a river of energy that moves across regions in great geographic cycles. Here, life and death are only different points on a continuum. The stream flows in a circle through time and space, turning death into life across coastal ecosystems, as it has for more than a million years. But such streams no longer flow in the places where most of us live.”

“I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.”

“If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.”

People Ifs Believe Justice Revolution Succeed Destroying Cuban Creeks

Author:Assata Shakur

“One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.”

Years Film Walks Half Six Comfortable Cameras Grateful Best Things Half A Year Creeks Film Set

Author:Michelle Williams

“... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.”

Thinking I Can Running Asks Garden Window Phones Forests Ask Me Vegetables Urban Creeks Vegetable Garden

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.”

Looks Whole Grows Watches Gone One Thing Salt Rescue Ruined Englishmen Creeks

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“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.”

May Seems Earth Used Masters Lovers Borrowed Creeks Tenants

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck.”

Way Play Kids Individual Effort Boys Organization Foundation One Way Hockey Ponds Batting Puck Creeks Individual Effort

Author:Lester Patrick

“I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.”

Wells Sometimes Courses Enjoy Known Good Times Well Known Having A Good Time Creeks

Author:Darrell Royal

“One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.”

Doe Nations Hero Creeks Catfish

Book:Brann the Iconoclast

Source: Brann the Iconoclast

“Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.”

“I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire train was lifted off of the railroad track and dumped over. People just need to make sure they do not drive into water. It floats the cars, and then we have deaths because of it.”

People Needs Mean Water Car Train Track Lifts Floats Railroads Dumped Creeks Railroad Tracks

Author:Jay Nixon

“In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.”

“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.”

Should Heart Cities Gone Childhood Lonely Hungry Creeks

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“There isn't a river or creek in the country - or there are very few - that doesn't have some small group of people working on a restoration or creek cleanup project. Let me give you one example that's a great metaphor: In Washington, D.C., there is a group called the Anacostia Watershed Society. Two rivers converge and define Washington - one which everybody knows about, the Potomac, and the Anacostia, which they don't. The Anacostia is one of the most polluted urban rivers in the country.”

People Knows Giving Two Country Groups Example Projects Rivers Let Me Metaphor Urban Restoration Small Groups Creeks Watersheds

Author:Robert Hass

“The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.”

People Years Firsts Done Shows Waiting Black Particular Projects Theater Teenager Chicago Sustaining Strawberries Creeks Berkeley

Author:Robert Hass

“I think when we opened in 2001, it was holy ground. There was nothing here. Back then, being on the Dubai Creek was an amazing position, and I would come one or two times a year, max. Now it's so different. The travel dilemma has disappeared and it is so easy to get to Dubai. What is it, seven hours from London? It's pretty easy.”

Thinking Years Two Different Easy Hours Position Holy Seven London Dilemma Max Easy To Get Creeks Dubai Holy Ground

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“For a guy that grew up on 31st Street and Everroad Park West and played on Haw Creek and dreamed some day of serving in Washington D.C., from my boyhood, to have the opportunity to have represented my hometown in our nation's capital, and now to have the opportunity to serve the entire nation as vice president is ... it's just deeply humbling.”

Guy Opportunity Nations President Streets Grew Grew Up West Vices Parks Serving Vice President Hometown Humbling Boyhood Creeks

Author:Mike Pence

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

Made Stuff Made It Worthwhile Baths Creeks Motels

Author:Chris LeDoux

“As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.”

Young Girl Sides Fields Woods Farms Chores Creeks Farm Girl

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.”

School Products Grew Towns Paint Code Awards Texas Rolling Farming Eagles Wheat Cotton Attending Creeks Zips Eagle Scout

Author:Rick Perry

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