Quotes about Solemn
The men in the painting, the groundskeepers in the garden—they were guardians, I thought, the quiet priests of a good and solemn order. And I would tell myself that I needed to work as hard and take as much care in my job as they did in theirs.
- Barack Obama
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.
- Ernest Hemingway
Christians ought to carry written in our hearts the solemn truth of how short is our opportunity to witness for Christ and live for Him.
- Billy Graham
I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Besides this, the future and eternal punishment of the wicked is now declared in terms more solemn and explicit than formerly. Under the new dispensation, there are two revelations given from heaven, one of wrath, the other of grace.
- AW Pink
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
- John Tyler
Sweet the coming on. Of grateful evening mild; then silent night. With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
- John Milton
One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ's second coming to complete the great work of redemption.
- Ellen White
A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
- Mark Twain
An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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.
- William James
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.
- Joseph Wirthlin