Sacred Quotes - Page 11

• Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Earth, Made

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• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Adversity, Ties

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• Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

  William O. Douglas

  Anniversary, Together, Degrees

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

  Emile Durkheim

  Definitions, Break, Continuity

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• Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Rage, Profit, Possession

  Desiderius Erasmus, Margaret Mann Phillips (1967). “Erasmus on His Times: A Shortened Version of the 'Adages' of Erasmus”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Cows, Poor, Sacred Cows

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Secular Music, Age, Cheerful

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• Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

  Emma Goldman

  Mom, Mother, Criminals

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.98, PM Press

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• The body is a sacred garment.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Health

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

  Lev Grossman

  Attitude, Book, Becoming

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• I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Cinema, Branches, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Writing, Next

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Wisdom is a sacred communion.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Communion

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

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• The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Rights, People

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.

  Steve Irwin

  Memories, Dad, People

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• The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

  Jesse Jackson

  President, Prophet, Priests

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• It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

  Alveda King

  Men, Generations, Guarantees

  "Alveda King Speaks at Glenn Beck's DC Rally" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2010.

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• A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.

  Richard G. Scott

  Writing, Giving, Important

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• To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

  Chief Seattle

  Ashes, Native American Indian, Ancestor

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• Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

  Rob Sheffield

  Agony, Icons, Space

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.118, Penguin

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• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  Archie Shepp

  Ideas, Musical, Culture

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• America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

  Bill Shuster

  Veterans Day, War, Blue

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• I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Stay Positive, Eating

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Life Is, Medieval

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