Sacred Things Quotations

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.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

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

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

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

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

Work to me is a sacred thing.

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

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

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

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.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching