Sacred Head

Famous quotes containing the words sacred head, sacred and/or head:

“Alas! and did my Saviour bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred Head
For such a worm as I?”
—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

“As for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles? Most men do not know that any nation but the Hebrews have had a scripture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“putting his hope in certain death, lowering
his head again to the grass.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)