Solemn Quotes
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.
Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.
Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.
I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out.
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.
Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.
But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.
I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.
It is the belief that we instill in them that makes them work round the clock to ensure it comes true.
Never ever seek for gratefulness from mankind, you shall always see ungratefulness. Do what you must do as a solemn duty and that is what you have to do!
It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.
Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold