Solemn Duty Quotes

#1. The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by Christ who enjoined the Apostles to 'go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation.'

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

Stephen L. Richards

#3. Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Barack Obama

#4. It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

#5. Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

Molly Corbett Broad

#6. He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

Edward Alsworth Ross

#8. I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush

#9. Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

H.L. Mencken

#10. But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

Amber Tamblyn

#11. I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Milan Kundera

#12. From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Brad Thor

#13. I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#14. If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

Muriel Siebert

#15. Why the hell did he have to be so complicated? One minute he was charming, the next he withdrew behind his internal walls.

Lia Davis

#16. War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be ... herpes.

Jen Lancaster

#19. It's your birthright to become what you wish to be.

Daniel Marques

#20. To be loved, adored, and worshipped like that by the person you loved in turn had to be the most amazing thing in the world.

Suzanne Wright

#21. Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

Kristen Ashley

#22. That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

Charles Eastman

#23. Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.

Yuan T. Lee

#24. When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem.

Rachel Smith

#25. We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation 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 brutal purpose for which they were invented.

Albert Einstein

#26. It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

Kathleen Winsor

#27. No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution-of whatever race, creed or persuasion.

Hugo Black

#28. I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.

George Washington

#29. Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success.

Henry Highland Garnet