Upper Creek Towns

Famous quotes containing the words upper, creek and/or towns:

“The first to strike will gain the upper hand.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)

“In the towns I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways—”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)