Famous quotes containing the words water and/or clocks:
“Instead of water we got here a draught of beer,... a lumberers drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When I woke, the town spoke.
Birds and clocks and cross bells
Dinned aside the coiling crowd,
The reptile profligates in a flame,
Spoilers and pokers of sleep....”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
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