Egypt Quotes - Page 2

• The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Years, Eras, Exodus

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• The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cosmos, World, Way

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• Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

  Pierre Loti

  Fascination, Magazines, Astonishment

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• Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Night, Black, Dresses

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Order, Ugly

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• I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.

  Hatshepsut

  Sunshine, Forever, Shining

  Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.

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• You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Easter, War, Middle East

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• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Country, Ordeals, Other Countries

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• A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Smell, Ancient

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• There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

  James Henry Breasted

  Land, Civilization, Bridges

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• Yesterday in Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?

  Conan O'Brien

  Children, Names, Yesterday

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• She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Pyramids, Mystery, Pale

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.507

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• The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thieves, Pleasure, Embrace

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• These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Groups, Bigs

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

  Plutarch

  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Greek

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• If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Hands, Self

  "Nineteen Eighty-four".

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• But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

  Roger Wicker

  Friends, People, Tough

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• Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Long, Technique

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.87, Routledge

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• As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Dog, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.93

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• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Zahi Hawass

  Running, Media, Umpires

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• When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

  Leonard Woolley

  Business, Games, Digging

  Sir Leonard Woolley (1920). “Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages from an Antiquary's Notebook”, London, Milford

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• An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Heritage, Strange, Honest

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• I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman".

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• The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Loving Life, Race, Ethnicity

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• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  Northrop Frye

  Kings, Stupid, Sheep

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.143, Princeton University Press

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