Water Clocks

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or clocks:

“We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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