Famous quotes containing the words face and/or clock:
“I ain’t seen the king’s face on a shilling for so long I’ve forgotten which George it is.”
—Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)
“What brought them there so far from their home,
Cuchulain that fought night long with the foam,
What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
Niamh that rode on it; lad and lass
That sat so still and played at the chess?
What but heroic wantonness?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)