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Quotes About Sacred

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
~ Gustave Courbet
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihen, die Götter, schenken heiliges Leid uns auch.
~ Hölderlin
I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
~ H. G. Bissinger
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...
~ James Joyce
He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood. Beside the savage desire within him to realise the enormities which he brooded on nothing was sacred.
~ James Joyce
The hour-long service confused John Jr. He fidgeted and asked, "Where's my daddy?" The sacred music, the religious incantations, and the somber setting proved too much for Jackie. She could no longer hold it in. She began to cry uncontrollably. Her sobbing body heaved and shook.
~ James L. Swanson
Let the mind be, along with countless other things, a landing strip for sacred visitations.
~ James Merrill
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
~ Marianne Williamson
We have a sacred obligation to support our men and women in uniform.
~ John Delaney
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
~ Judy Biggert
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
~ Tony Campolo
I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!
~ Richard Chamberlain
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
~ Sam Kinison
The most sacred duty of the President of the United States of America is to defend and protect the Constitution and the principles it enshrines: freedom, fairness, and equality.
~ Tom Steyer
In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
~ David Boreanaz
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.
~ Stephen Levine
Style is a sacred fashion.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The part of you that's like God is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. Or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.
~ Willie Parker
The part of you that's like Gob is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.
~ Willie Parker
A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.
~ Debasish Mridha
The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.
~ Jonathan Galassi
One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership.
~ Michael Shermer