Solemn Quotes

294 Solemn quotes by 223 unique authors

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds. — Aldous Huxley
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb… — William C. Bryant
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed… — William C. Bryant
Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling… — Washington Irving
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in… — John Keble
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,… — William Cowper
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… — Thomas Ken
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… — Petra Kelly
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. — Kevin Watkins
One of the most solemn responsibilities of the president--and it's set out expressly in the Constitution--is that the president is to take care that the… — Samuel Alito
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
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… — Mark Hopkins
It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the… — Jawaharlal Nehru
I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed… — John Hancock
The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths,… — John Muir
I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a… — Gerald R. Ford
What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say? — Emily Dickinson
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done… — Artemisia Gentileschi
How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them. — Calvin Coolidge
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? — Alphonse de Lamartine
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the… — Vladimir Lenin
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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