...the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and…

“That's one problem I've always had: when I'm anywhere near shit creek, I have to know how far up that creek actually goes." --Hester…

— Mercedes Helnwein

“Then you’re up shit creek, Popinjay, without a paddle.”

— Joseph Heller

It's hard to see a river all at once, especially in the mountains. Down on the plains, rivers run in their course as straightforward…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer…

— T. S. Eliot

If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't…

— Diana L. Eck

“Where are we going? (Astrid) Up Shit Creek sans the paddles. (Zarek)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He had to keep tearing his gaze from her chest, because this was so not the time to be caught up in lust. This…

— Bethany Lovell

I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now…

— Jim Fowler

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

— William Cowper Brann

All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.

— Huey Long

“the distant whisper of the creek as it runs between the roots of trees so much older than I am that they probably never…

— Seanan McGuire

The people who watched 'Dawson's Creek' when it originally aired aren't too old to enjoy 'Life Unexpected.' And then you've got the whole next…

— Kerr Smith

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

— Dan Rather

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

God willing and the creek don't rise

— Benjamin Hawkins