Hour
The hour (common symbol: h or hr) is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds. It is approximately 1/24 of a mean solar day.
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Famous quotes containing the word hour:
“I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesnt seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth lifes while to wake and sport.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars Well, he would say, if we blow ourselves up, theres plenty more where we came from!”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)