You can't hold back the clock, it just ticks on and on.
11 seconds sound clip from the Rudolph's Shiny New Year movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:10:28 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- No, sir. All I know is that everybody says, 'Happy New Year.'
- In a way, it's like an old king stepping down, and a new one taking his place.
- A Baby New Year starts out every January the 1st... innocent and young as springtime.
- The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.
- You can't hold back the clock, it just ticks on and on.
- The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on, so treasure memories, for what is gone is gone.
- And oh, you may swear that time told you no it's great just to be alive.
- And as midnight nears, the old year waits. And all the clocks count down his last moments.
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