Top 1200 Sacred Cows Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

All of the little entries in 'The Cows' were written in an irregular way. There might be one or two done one day, and then two weeks might go by or four weeks, and then they were put in an order or sequence.

One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Time to unite the Sacred Bands, Thebans and his people: one unit, one heart, one swing through life.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold it all sacred.

We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.

When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.

My parents taught me to be optimistic and independent. They made me feel that I could do anything I set my mind to, which has really helped me. They didn't make allowances for me because of my height. I had to do everything my brother and sister had to do, including raising our animal menagerie that included cows and chickens.

There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I've been involved in activities with other people who were put in jail. We were protesting the closing of the prison farm program at the prison I used in a previous book, Alias Grace. Some of us also put up money in order to save the heirloom herd of cows there. So I own half a cow!

When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

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

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Acting is very sacred. Anyone who stands in front of a crew with the camera recording their emotions is a brave individual.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.

Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

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

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

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

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.