Egypt Quotes - Page 16

• The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Passion, Humility

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• We (Israelis) always think that we're at the center of everything. It's true that we didn't make peace with Egypt and Jordan, but with two men, President Sadat and King Hussein. It is possible that we will have to restructure the peace and our relations (so that they are) between one people and another.

  Tom Segev

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).

  Michael Tsarion

  Years, Four, Augustus

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• Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.

  Michael Tsarion

  Father, War, Pharaohs

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• In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

  Michael Tsarion

  Two, Symbolism, Secret

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• Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Spring, Pride, Israel

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• Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Country, Cities

  Samuel Sharpe (1896). “Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom”

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• [...] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago.

  Michael Tsarion

  Years, People, Coming Out

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• It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christian, Religious, Civilization

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Tv Shows, Pyramids

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests and kings. Often times they had as many as 21 strings. Under the manipulation "the Minstrels of the Gods" the music was of rare potency. "Musical Medicine" was an actuality. Healing, along with numerous so-called "supernatural feats" was attributed to this art.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Kings, Inspiration

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• Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

  Tom Segev

  War, Uprising, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people -sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Other Cultures, Play, People

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Greatness, Rome, Civilization

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• Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.

  Edith Hall

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Horse

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• Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.

  Larry Gates

  Life, Art, Land

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• The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.

  Benjamin Graham

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56, 1944.

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• It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

  Vance Havner

  Jesus, Want, Matter

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.

  Bill Maher

  White, Giving, House

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• I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

  Munir Butt

  Disappointment, Party, Blow

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou art undone forever. Old anointings will not suffice to impart unction to thy spirit; thine head must have fresh oil poured upon it from the golden horn of the sanctuary, or it will cease from its glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Art, Oil

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.198, Hendrickson Publishers

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• In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Spring, Blow

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.

  Richard Engel

  Islamic, Fighting, Iraq

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• Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Crush, Men, Way

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• I spent the day today at Brighton Beach, walking around. It's a Russian/Jewish neighborhood. And I was in a store and I saw a board game called 'Let My People Go,' based on the Jews' exodus from Egypt. I was like, 'Too soon.

  Eugene Mirman

  Beach, Games, People

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