Solemn Quotes
Solemn Quote of the day
They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
Anxiety must go. It must be replaced by faith and solemn confidence in the outworking of the divine plan.
The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.
Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.
Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?
O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
