Famous quotes containing the words world, population and/or clock:
“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
And all alone comes riding there
The King that could make his people stare,
Because he had feathers instead of hair.
A slow low note and an iron bell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)