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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.

Thomas Jefferson

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.

Oprah Winfrey

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Sophocles

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.

Horace Mann

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

Woodrow Wilson

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Andrew Jackson

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

William Orville Douglas

The First Amendment was never intended to remove all religious expression from the public square, ... There is no doubt the Ten Commandments are a sacred religious text, but neither can we deny their significant impact on the history, culture and laws of Texas and the rest of the country.

Greg Abbott

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

Peter Singer

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Teilhard De Chardin

It's such a sacred place. So many people have played there.

Carrie Underwood

On her pages sacred cows become blustering pachyderms.

Mel Gussow

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara De Angelis

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

Our home field is like sacred. We don't let a team leave the Mustang graveyard with a win.

Natalie Feller

I'm very impressed with Sacred Heart and how well they are coached and how patient they are on both offense and defense. They have really shown a lot of talent and seem to make some good decisions and work hard on both ends of the court.

Mark Keeler

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted. In the American army it is ingeniously called 'rev-e-lee,' and to that pronunciation our countrymen have pledged their lives, their misfortunes and their sacred dishonor.

Ambrose Bierce

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

William Herschel

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Karen Armstrong

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.

Edward Sellner

The destruction of sacred sites in Gaza proves that the Palestinian Authority must never be entrusted with any Jewish or Christian Holy sites.

Abraham Cooper

In the name of the sacred respect of life under Islam and of all humanitarian principles, we appeal to the humanity of the kidnappers for them to save the life of this Frenchman.

Dalil Boubakeur

It's hard to see how they overcome some of the intrusions onto really pretty sacred territory.

Clint Stretch

Place matters to us. We often call it sacred ground where earth meets heaven.

William Cooke

Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.

Robert J. Kibbee

The intention is not just sexual, but it's intimate in a sacred way.

Chenzira Kahina

Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

George McDonald

There are more constructive ways to carry on a conversation about the future of the country and the nation's poor than using this sacred occasion.

Robert Franklin

Comment is free but facts are sacred.

Charles Scott

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

Ambrose Bierce

We believe evolution should be taught as a scientific theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can't be questioned.

Casey Luskin

There is something within the national psyche that recognizes this spot as graveyard. A lot of the conflict is stemming from an internal reaction recognizing this is a sacred space.

Colleen Kelly

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable.

Joyce Carol Oates

Every game is a must game. That?s how we look at it. It would be tremendous (to start 3-0), but we don?t look at it as a two-game set. We won?t talk about Sacred Heart until we get back from LIU. We need to be as prepared as we possibly can be because I believe it?s more challenging on the road.

Howie Dickenman

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Bernard Devoto

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire.

Ann Plato

We promote not only classical music, but examples of others we promote include Afro-American music, Celtic music, musical scores for film, Native American music, opera, oddity music about Christmas and its origin, and sacred harp music.

Scott Gamble

I was really pumped up for this game, because it's always a good game when we play against Sacred Heart. I knew I had to step up for us to get the victory.

Danielle Robinson

Sacred Heart really picks up the defense when they can smell the defeat. They are a good ball team with a lot of big-game experience that we are lacking right now. When they have a chance to finish you off, they do it.

Tom Ramon

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many paths and they are all valid if they work for the individual, ... All the paths are sacred and all should be accepted in the recovery family.

Steve Kline

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

Martin Van Buren

The most sacred moment for the nation.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

At first, when they got to the green they saw the two balls from Connecticut and Sacred Heart. When Mike didn't see his ball, he thought he hit the ball long, because he had used a 3-wood.

Gary Skrinar

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

Paul Castellano

It's one of the real sacred precincts of the law -- that your client should be absolutely free to tell you whatever he needs to tell to you, and you should be free to give whatever advice you need to give.

Lynne Stewart

This was a cultural change where Paul said nothing is sacred.

Bill Calder

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Ambrose Bierce

Sacred Heart is probably one of the most improved teams in the area. The girls were very excited to play them first. Both teams fought to the end.

Kelly Knuth

The destruction of sacred sites and the killing of young police forces does not concern the American forces. The main problem facing Iraq is the presence of foreign occupants which has become a motive for Iraqis to resort to violence.

Hassan Rohani

This sentence should reflect the sacred character of public funds. These days there seems to be a blind spot in public culture, that fraud against the government isn't too important, that the public pockets are deep and inexhaustible.

Jacques Dagenais

The Ten Commandments represent the moral foundation of this great and blessed nation. Sacred laws that this nation was founded on are being assaulted and denigrated daily by an army of secular champions determined to destroy every vestige of America's rich spiritual heritage.

Ron Wexler

Everyone gave all their effort. We have a big one Monday against Sacred Heart on Monday (after press time) and hopefully we can bounce back.

Kitty Palmer

We feel that free speech and artistic expression are sacred. But the Oscars should think twice about what it means to award such a movie a prize.

Yossi Zur

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Michael Novak

The American attack on our sacred sites is almost certain and we have taken the necessary measures.

Muqtada Al sadr

Sacred Heart is about being able to teach the faith day in and day out to whoever wants it. And when someone is in need, for them it's coming in loud and clear wherever they are.

Bill Levitt

A majority of the gods feared the ski village would pollute the culture and sacred spots on hilltops that belong to the deities.

Maheshwar Singh

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

To criticize the prophet Muhammad is as direct an attack as mocking or attacking the Koran, which is seen as the word of God or the sacred Scripture. Muhammad is seen as the living Koran. His life Muslims are to emulate.

John Esposito

They are almost too sacred to do that.

Scot Davis

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

George Crabbe

O Black and unknown bards of long ago,/ How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

James Weldon Johnson

He has a deep commitment to Catholic education. He, himself, is a product of an all-boys school that has a philosophy that is very similar to the Sacred Heart philosophy.

Mary Burns

Americans are more concerned about the sacred deadlines rather than the contents of the constitution.

Saleh Al mutlaq

The organizers of the International Freedom Center say that in order to understand 9/11, we must see exhibits about slavery, segregation and genocide and its impact around the world. This is a history that we all should know and learn, but not here -- not on sacred ground.

Michael Burke

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?

Saadat Hasan Manto

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

Paula Gunn Allen

It's a cultural resource. They feel it's a sacred site.

Jerry Hittleman

Our view is the entire World Trade Center is a sacred precinct, a place of dignity, a place of aspiration, a place of contemplation, and of hope and memory.

Richard Meier

The Sacred Union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene was the cornerstone of the earliest Christian communities.

Margaret Starbird

It wasn't just theft. It wasn't just vandalism. It was the violation of a right we hold sacred. That kind of behavior needs to have repercussions.

Katie Walker

Execute better offensively than we did last week, ... Our defense didn't play too bad against Sacred Heart so I expect our defense to play well again, except our offense has to sustain drives and not just put 12 points on the board.

Ben Steele

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Mark Twain

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Mark Twain

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

Mark Twain

As I was being born my father claims that he was playing his fiddle/violin to soothe my mother and when my head came out he says that I looked right into his eyes and that my eyes were the color of electric turquoise and in Persian the word for turquoise is Fairuza, it also means Sacred or Precious one....don't ask me...

Fairuza Balk

For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers; but this priceless jewel is within your own heart.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Henry James

When you're playing Catholic or Sacred Heart, it really eliminates your chances. It really depends on the draw in the state tournament. You're not going to beat the private schools. They have more talent than the other schools do.

Howard Beth

The General Plan is supposed to be pretty sacred.

John Bencomo

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Georges Bataille

Any sacred text comes alive in a unique way when it is sung, and composers from Gregorian chant to the present day have known that.

David Chalmers

I thank Governor Pataki for doing the right thing, ... Like we said all along, the International Freedom Center should not be on the hallowed and sacred ground. The governor listened to the American people and the 9/11 families.

Bill Doyle

JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

Ambrose Bierce

The last thing you want to do is to re-engineer the core workflows to such a degree that hardly any employee can follow it, or document it. Especially with small businesses, where routines are sometimes entrenched, knocking over the sacred cows all at once can be disorienting.

Robert M. Hamilton

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Jef Raskin

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.

Heather Armstrong

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Charles Prestwich Scott

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Marquis De Lafayette

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Christina Baldwin

I?m a sacred cow.

Cilla Black

Change always ruffles feathers. But to us, nothing is sacred. This is going to be good for us, good for the island.

Andy Mckay

And what we do is sacred.

Angela Bassett

The International Freedom Center has now confirmed that it plans to take the memory of 9/11 and use it to flog their own personal ideology. Politics left, right or in the middle do not belong on sacred ground. Ground zero should not be used as a public square.

Anthony Gardner

We talk about going in and giving ourselves a second-chance opportunity. Whether we scored or not, it ran off a little bit more time and made Sacred Heart have to come guard us.

Jim Ferry

It's always been there, but it's always been underground. Nothing seems to be sacred anymore. It just seems to be acceptable.

Katherine Orr

We maintain that it doesn't belong on the site, ... It doesn't belong on sacred ground. Politics do not belong on this sacred place.

Anthony Gardner

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

Liu Peng

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Lord Acton

Beating Sacred Heart in here on home ice gave us a lot of confidence and momentum. We have a chance to pick up a lot of points in the league with all of these home games coming up in January.

Seth Beamer

The challenge from Day 1 has always been: how do you accommodate both the sacred and the everyday on this site. The memorial needs to function as a solemn and sacred kind of place, while the whole site needs to become part of the city again.

Robert Yaro

We knew they have a quality pitcher. I knew they had the potential to be a good team as they played Sacred Heart tough before falling 4-1.

Charles Vidrine

I think we both have a genuine respect and love for what we do. Theater is sacred.

Angela Bassett

For 27 years, it meant only one thing. And we carry a message about the life on this planet and the quality of it is sacred. Very simple, but sometimes complex.

Dennis Banks

We'll do, among other things, two performances in King's College, Cambridge, of Bach and a special program of Mozart's sacred music.

Christopher Lawrence

He took immense pride in slaying the sacred cows.

Bruce James

The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your heart will always draw back to this sacred place. You have gathered to observe a dark day in history.

George Pataki

It's a big difference when you can count that seven points. The extra point can turn a ball game around big time. I think if we make the kick against Sacred Heart, it might have been a different ball game.

Ben Steele

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

Carl Olson

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Abu Muhammad

Nobody can touch St. X. But the girls' race is going to be good. It's going to be either Manual or Sacred Heart.

Gary Webb

There has been discussion about the tribe acquiring the important sacred sites in Clover Valley. However, nothing has been consummated and the tribe has not made any decision on whether or not they will buy the land.

Doug Elmets

I was familiar with preserved Civil War fields like Gettysburg, where there are national parks and monuments all over the place. They're places that are hallowed and sacred and interpreted with text and park rangers. The whole mechanics of history is brought to bear on these places.

Nick Capasso

Essentially, we see him in the middle of this learning process after the visitation. He goes through the grief and guilt of the murder he committed. Understanding the two brothers is problematic because the one who seems to represent the sacred actually is a profanation and vice versa.

Rinde Eckert

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

George Jellinek

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

Ben Lindsey

There's almost a sacred responsibility top make sure the family's wealth grows, and you have the ghosts of your ancestors looking over your shoulder.

Michael Useem

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

Don Herold

The end of last year, [Elliot] walked out of Sacred Heart. We built a different hospital set out here, and she's going to be over at her new job for at least a couple months.

Bill Lawrence

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

William Henry Harrison

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah, etc. All things are either sacred or profane. The former .

Ambrose Bierce

SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Ambrose Bierce

For me this place is absolutely sacred, it is absolutely special.

Jim Munro

Art is a sacred lie.

Muhammad Iqbal

Sacred texts are universal and their truths are eternal. There is not a thing that we sing that doesn't have our personal conviction.

David Chalmers

There's an awful lot of sacred cows being lead to slaughter and the chances of them actually getting there are slim.

William Dickens

What makes me the proudest is that our families are close, work closely together and have a true Aloha between them. That is what we hold onto as dear and sacred.

Tim Richards

This is a dream place. The place is soothing for the senses, creative for the mind, vibrant for the body and sacred for the soul.

Margo Teicher

We are proud to be the first in the Pensacola area to achieve this distinction. Certification as a Primary Stroke Center recognizes Sacred Heart's commitment to providing outstanding stroke care that can lessen the potential effects of a stroke.

Bill Mclaughlin

This is sacred ground, ... Americans come here to learn of their past . . . their heritage. It is our obligation . . . to honor this sacred landscape by preserving it.

Bruce Babbitt

For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood.

Michael Jeffery

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

Joseph Howe

It's a great time to be an artist, ... because a lot of the sacred cows are no longer in evidence.

Maxwell L. Anderson

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald

This is sacred ground today. The price of freedom is truly visible here today.

Jack Clark

This goes to the core of what it means to be an American. Conscience is the most sacred of all property. Doctors, dentists, nurses and other health care workers should not be forced to violate their consciences.

David Stevens

Obviously, each of them violates the sacred trust that the Globe has with its readers.

Matthew Storin

A majority of the oracles feared that the ski village would pollute the local culture and sacred spots on hill tops which belong to deities.

Maheshwar Singh

Nothing is sacred inside. It doesn't take long for the information to get to the compound and they (inmates and guards) will do what they see fit. It wasn't as rough for me because my psychological evaluation said I wasn't a threat to anybody.

Patrick Durbin

This is their sacred place. They will go to war over this.

Kevin Mckiernan

It was a great feeling. The atmosphere was great, the fans were great. You look up and you see Sacred Heart shirts and them going crazy, and it makes you go crazy.

Amanda Pape

Local efforts by Tibetan communities through their 'Sacred Lands' are helping to prevent these plants and animals from going extinct and demonstrate that cultural values can play an important role in conservation.

Leeanne Alonso

The idea is to render to viewers that war and peace are sacred concepts.

David Gianfredi

There is nothing progressive about turning nature and God's sacred design for marriage on its head in the name of civil rights.

Michael Heath

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops.

Ernest Bramah

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

Pearl S. Buck

You never know where the limit will be. These are sacred places and really shouldn't be opened to this kind of activity.

Eric Antebi