Sacred Things Quotes

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Work to me is a sacred thing.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

My body should only be for my husband and it's just a sacred thing.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.

A National Flag is the most sacred thing a nation can possess

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.