the sundial, words were carved: I ONLY MARK THE HOURS THAT…

I only count the hours that shine.

— Cassandra Clare

With the platform given to me by 'The Sunday Show,' I'm able for two hours to shine the spotlight in a place where people…

— Jonathan Capehart

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but…

— Tracey Emin

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever;…

— Margaret George

“the words carved above the cathedral of my childhood”

— Daniel Keyes

I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch.

— Hilaire Belloc

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

— Benjamin Franklin

“I'm very damn wet!' he said aloud to the sundial.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

— Dwight L. Moody

“I continued my explorations in a cobbled yard overlooked by broken doors and cracked windows. Pushing open a swollen door into a storeroom, I…

— Martine Bailey

“Autumn The cheerful sundial it falls in the shadow of thy leaves there where your branches brace themselves against the gate of heaven”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“And the time sundials tell May be minutes and hours. But it may just as well Be seconds and sparkles, or seasons and flowers.…

— John Ciardi

“Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here.…

— Susan Orlean

Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb And lay…

— Eleanor Farjeon

“She looked as if she were a vampire about to check the time—with a sundial.”

— Kresley Cole