Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out.… — John Keble Copy Share Image
A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We have to have an aggressive, long-term plan to tackle our nation’s debt, but attempting to balance the budget on the backs… — Tim Walz Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One of the great blessings of the restored gospel is the privilege of entering into sacred covenants with our Father in Heaven-covenants… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife,… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is… — Hirohito Copy Share Image
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“There was also something false about the atmosphere here. It was solemn and dignified like a church or the court of a… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years.… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image