Famous quotes containing the words clock and/or news:
“Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
—Rupert Brooke (18871915)
“Word of gloom from the war, one day;
Johnston pressed at the front, they say.
Little Giffen was up and away;
A tearhis firstas he bade good-by,
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
Ill write, if spared! There was news of the fight;
But none of Giffen.He did not write.”
—Francis Orrery Ticknor (18221874)