Quotations on Clocks

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
- e. e. cummings
(Keywords: Time, Children, Clocks, Fathers)

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
- Michael Ende
(Keywords: Time, Clocks, Eternity, Measure)

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Keywords: Life, Clocks, Key)

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
- Garry Shandling
(Keywords: Love, Clocks, Night)

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.
- John W. Vessey, Jr.
(Keywords: War, Strategy, Clocks, Enemies, Self)