Solemn Quotes

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us. - Joe Wilson

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? / For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. - Bible

We're just trying to show honor and respect for families. I was appalled when I read about these protests, that they'd use a solemn occasion like this as a forum for their views. - John Lutsch

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. - John Edward Redmond

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. - Petra Kelly

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God. - Maria Monk

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the br. - Albert Einstein

We hope that no one will oppose the donation for political reasons and we will faithfully fulfill our solemn promise made to Taiwan compatriots. - Li Weiyi

We demand that U.S.-led NATO take effective actions to positively react to the solemn demands of the Chinese side. - Zhu Bangzao