Quote by Anne Rice

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

— Mark Twain

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

— Wilson Mizner

“He’s like an old clock the won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare…

— Ken Kesey

“We each had our own clocks on either side of the bed. They were old wind-up clocks from our Ann Arbor days. His was…

— Jane Hamilton

“I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I'm a puppy unleashed in a meadow…

— Jerry Spinelli

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember…

— Alan Coren

“It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn’t working, only to…

— Michael Lewis

“There were grandfather clocks and these things that were sort like half-grandfather clocks, and so many cuckoo clocks I suddenly felt like I was…

— Adam Rapp

“Once upon a time there was an anachronic clock. When it struck the hours they would roll through the living room then transform themselves…

— Anonymous

“My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen.”

— Louise Erdrich

“The cage door opened and the cuckoo bird fell, fell, fell, until finally her stunted wings opened, and she found that she could fly.”

— Kate Morton

“You see, the lives of servants are not lived by clocks, but by the ringing of their masters' bells.”

— Tom Angleberger