I put my trust in time and waited for the rock to wear down around me.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:44:56 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The molten rock cooled.

- I prayed wondering how many centuries, how many eons must pass before the wind and rain could wear away the mountain that enclosed me.

- Darkness. Darkness for centuries.

- I wondered if there was still a war being waged on the ground above me, if man would still exist on earth, when I saw the sun again.

- The centuries rolled by.

- I put my trust in time and waited for the rock to wear down around me.

- I was free again.

- Thousands of centuries had passed, but the earth had stayed green.

- There was no winter, no wars.

- Had man finally learned to control both the elements and himself?

[...]

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Why is it that we usually ignore the forth dimension? Because we have no freedom of movement within it. You see, we can move in the other three: Up, down, forward, sideways, backward, but when it comes to time, we are prisoners.
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