Earth and sky Quote by deborah harkness

“As I set out each day, I felt like a young child again. One who hadn't yet learned the rules of manmade time; the…

— Alice Steinbach

“As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said—and calendars.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For weeks I read round the clock. I entered the warp of the world of the imagination. Chapter numbers became the enumerations by which…

— Sam Wazan

“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

“People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars.”

— Matthew Goldman

Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars,…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

“Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it…

— Mitch Albom

“Time for me had always been measured in terms of the rising sun, its setting sister, and the dependable cycle of the moon. but…

— Monique Truong

“Without a watch or a clock, you cannot tell whether it’s day or night, and so it is a world created by its occupants.”

— Danielle Flood

“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip…

— Richard J. Borden

“Rhythm of life runs in cycles there are times in the darkness and time in the light.”

— Olympia Dukakis