Famous quotes containing the words short and/or creek:
“[On being asked “what sort of future she anticipates having”:] A very short one.”
—Jeanne Calment (b. c. 1875)
“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)