Famous quotes containing the words creek, rail and/or trail:
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the two volumes of common law that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)
“For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“Most of us dont have mothers who blazed a trail for usat least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the womens movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrumswhat should they be? how should they act?that became our uncertainties.”
—Anne Roiphe (20th century)