Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

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

“It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is…

— Faith A. Colburn

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