Water Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or clocks:

“I will catch Christ with a greased worm,
And when the Prince of Darkness stalks
My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . .
On water the Man-Fisher walks.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)