Cuckoo Clocks Quotes:

To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

- Terence McKenna

topic: Together Again, Cuckoos, Cuckoo Clocks, Back Together, Back Together Again

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.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

topic: Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks, Alps, Steep

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.

- Orson Welles

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Alps, Italian Renaissance

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

- Graham Greene

source: Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

topic: Love, Peace, Years, Brotherly Love, Cuckoo Clocks

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....

- Alan Coren

source: Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books

topic: Order, Snow, Giving, Cuckoo Clocks

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

- Wilson Mizner

topic: Bird, Cuckoos, Clock, Cuckoo Clocks

I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Ãœber Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Summer, Feet, August, Little Towns, Cuckoo Clocks

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Mother, Law, Cuckoos, Mother In Law, Cuckoo Clocks

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.

- Kelley Armstrong

source: Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK

topic: Mom, Dad, Eye, Cuckoo Clocks

Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.

- P. G. Wodehouse

topic: Golf, Men, Games, Cuckoo Clocks