It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a…

The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking…

— Merle Haggard

God willing and the creek don't rise

— Benjamin Hawkins

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for…

— Mark Twain

Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so…

— Henry Rollins

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…

— Erk Russell

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

— Dan Rather

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework…

— Reinhold Messner

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…

— Assata Shakur

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a…

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Sara Evans

In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you…

— Anne Lamott

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews,…

— Anonymous

... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste…

— Michael Grunwald