Paint Creek may refer to:
- Paint Creek (Iowa), a direct tributary of the Upper Mississippi River
- Paint Creek (Johnson County, Kentucky), a 20.1 mile-long tributary of the Levisa Fork
- Paint Creek (Michigan), a 16.8 mile-long stream
- Paint Creek (Ohio), a 94.7 mile-long tributary of the Scioto River
- Paint Creek, Texas, an unincorporated community in southeast Haskell County, Texas
- Paint Creek (West Virginia), a 42.1 mile-long tributary of the Kanawha River
Famous quotes containing the words paint and/or creek:
“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)