Hat Creek Cattle

Famous quotes containing the words hat, creek and/or cattle:

    Few colors last; with their eternal thirst, time and light suck on them, and they bleach the black doctor’s hat until it’s grey like a dunce’s cap.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    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)

    Young steers become old cattle from that day,
    Electric limits to their widest senses.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)