Goose Creek State

Famous quotes containing the words goose, creek and/or state:

““Lawk a mercy on me,
This is none of I!

“But if this be I,
As I do hope it be,
I have a little dog at home
And he knows me;”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was an old woman, as I’ve heard tell (l. 23–28)

“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)

“They will take a state and human nature for their tablet, and begin by making a clean surface.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)