logo

Quotes About Momentous

The dishes," [Garnet] said. "Oh, let them stand for once!" cried Mrs. Linden grandly, "we can do them when we come home. This is an important day." "You're nice," said Garnet, and gave her mother a hug.
~ Elizabeth Enright
A Champions League final is so rare to play.
~ Toby Alderweireld
Once '0 to 100' happened, it sort of spun this chain reaction - really the first big record that I was a part of. It was a big, life-changing thing for me.
~ Frank Dukes
London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.
~ Elena Vesnina
Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
~ Samuel Johnson
I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
~ Anne Sexton
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
~ Marisha Pessl
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
~ Marisha Pessl
Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming.
~ Mark Bowden
If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in early June, momentous decisions are made, power waxes strong, quick wars are fought, and love affairs are begun and ended.
~ Mark Helprin
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.
~ Anthony Powell
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~ Pythagoras
Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you endeavor to bring a holy hush upon your people in a worship service, you can be assured that someone will say that the atmosphere is unfriendly or cold. All that many people can imagine is that the absence of chatter would mean the presence of stiffness and awkwardness and unfriendliness. Since they have little or no experience of the deep gladness of momentous moments of gravity, they strive for gladness the only way they know how—by being lighthearted and chipper and talkative.
~ John Piper
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
~ John Raleigh Mott
Ok, now this is epic.
~ John Smith
Do something worth remembering.
~ Elvis Presley
The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
~ Pardis Sabeti
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
~ Mark Haddon
In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
~ Janos Kadar
To score a goal in front of my family and so many U.S. fans in the World Cup was just absolutely incredible.
~ Lindsey Horan