Creek Improvement District

Famous quotes containing the words creek, improvement and/or district:

    “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)

    “... till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)