Paint Creek may refer to:
- Paint Creek (Iowa), a direct tributary of the Upper Mississippi River
- Paint Creek (Johnson County, Kentucky), a 20.1 mile-long tributary of the Levisa Fork
- Paint Creek (Michigan), a 16.8 mile-long stream
- Paint Creek (Ohio), a 94.7 mile-long tributary of the Scioto River
- Paint Creek, Texas, an unincorporated community in southeast Haskell County, Texas
- Paint Creek (West Virginia), a 42.1 mile-long tributary of the Kanawha River
Famous quotes containing the words paint and/or creek:
“My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)