Water Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or clocks:

“Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee!
Let the Water and the Blood,
From thy riven Side which flow’d,
Be of sin the double cure;
Cleanse me from its guilt and pow’r.”
—Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778)

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