Famous quotes containing the words swamp and/or creek:
“Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“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)