Cuckoo Clocks Quotes by Orson Welles, Kelley Armstrong, Alan Coren, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Henny Youngman and many others.
n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
He rolled his eyes. “First, my Dad’s Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don’t like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either.” I sputtered a laugh. “I think that’s Swiss.
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Have I got a mother-in-law. She’s so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.
The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
