The Finest Hour Quotes

#1. If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it.

Jim Coleman

#2. There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

Winston Churchill

#3. We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.

Dean Koontz

#4. In hind sight, telling him all strangers wanted to eat him wasn't my finest hour. Having to explain to a bunch of crying children in line to see Santa why my kid was screaming 'DON'T GO NEAR HIM! HE'LL EAT YOUR FINGERS!' was no picnic.

Tara Sivec

#5. Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

Sara Blakely

#6. His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

Phyllis Diller

#7. Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

Marlene Dietrich

#9. I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Struggling alone, like the everyday and ending with the same fate.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. Mother, of course, takes a lot of exercise, walks and so on. And every morning she puts on a pair of black silk drawers and a sweater and makes indelicate gestures on the lawn. That's called Building the Body Beautiful. She's mad about it.

Nancy Mitford

#12. Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

Peter Tork

#13. There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.

Winston Churchill

#14. I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Jim Coleman

#15. When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.

David Gordon Green

#16. You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.

Tasha Tudor

#17. You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house.

Mark Anthony Jarman

#18. My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

Tom T. Hall

#19. Whatever you did, man, you laid her to rest." I didn't lay Stacy's soul to rest. I sent her to hell. It wasn't my finest hour.

Craig Schaefer

#20. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying. They know their ideas on the topic are not popular.

Ann Coulter

#21. I unzipped my boots but they wouldn't budge. My feet had swollen in the heat. After much tugging, a queue had started to form behind us. Eventually I had no choice but to hold onto the rail with my legs in the air whilst Adam pulled. It wasn't my finest hour.

Robert Bryndza

#22. You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table ... " a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question," ... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob

Lora Leigh

#23. The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

Noam Chomsky

#24. Obedience has a way of strengthening rather than depleting our resources. If we obey in one small corner, we will have power to obey elsewhere. Obedience begets obedience.

Richard J. Foster

#25. Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

Charlaine Harris

#26. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

Ani DiFranco

#27. We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

Larry Kramer

#28. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.

Winston S. Churchill

#29. Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head.
"You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that.
"That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.

Heather Hepler

#30. If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

Blake Shelton