Egypt Quotes

• The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

  Golda Meir

  Running, Fighting, Sea

  Life Magazine (p. 32), October 3, 1969.

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• Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Dream, Memories, Mystery

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• Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Doors, Peru

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• It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

  Herodotus

  Country, World, Wonder

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• Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Important, Complexes

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• There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Usual, Revolution, Making History

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• If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Moving, People, Looks

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 13, 2011

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• The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.

  Heinz Fischer

  People, Earth, Proud

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• Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

  Herodotus

  Nile

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• Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

  George Takei

  Wall, Writing, Cat

  FaceBook post by George Takei from Mar 30, 2013

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• Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

  Aristotle

  Math, Skills, Able

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• Egypt is a sovereign nation.

  William Hague

  Sovereign, Nations

  "Foreign Secretary: 'We are on the side of a stable democratic future for Egypt'". "Andrew Marr Show", www.gov.uk. February 6, 2011.

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• In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Subordination, Subordinates

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

  James Henry Breasted

  Art, Civilization, Culture

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• Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

  Kathleen Troia McFarland

  Country, Important, Regions

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• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

  Hassan Fathy

  Inspirational, Feet, Architecture

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• The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Pyramids, Lasts, Architecture

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• I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Dust, Smell

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• When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.

  John Adams

  Believe, Mean, Essence

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.388

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• Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.

  Helen Keller

  Relationship, Soulmate, Fall

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• In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.

  Anita Diament

  Powerful, Flower, Night

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• For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Fields, Excuse

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• (Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dust, Gleam, Splendid

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