Egypt Quotes - Page 3

• Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Dog, Pyramids

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• The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.

  Roger Milla

  Team, Player, Order

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• We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

  Mike Johanns

  Taiwan, Beef, Lebanon

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  People, Democracy, Literature

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• Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Mainstream Culture, Female, Circumcision

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• More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Connections, Literature, Want

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• Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Islamic, Starting Over

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• Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

  Ben Nicholson

  Mean, Journey, Important

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• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Pregnancy, Class, Literature

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• I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

  Roald Dahl

  Iraq, Flying, Desert

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.156, Penguin UK

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• The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Israel, Politics, Security

  Observer, February 27, 1983.

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• The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Stars, Fall, Past

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Vann R. Newkirk II (2017). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.34, Restless Books

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• Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

  Eric Alterman

  Spring, Uganda, United States

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• I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.

  Mitt Romney

  Firsts, Administration, Libya

  Statement to the Press, www.cbsnews.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.

  Elaine Pagels

  Book, Years, Religion

  Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House

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• One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the oldest cities in the land. There Professor Emery discovered men with blond hair and fair complexions. These individuals were revered and honored by the Egyptians as specially endowed elite.

  Michael Tsarion

  Men, Hair, Land

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• A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America? Blinks of an eye...The very oldest root of civilization, at least of Western civilization, is Egypt. Look at the pyramid on the dollar bill. Look at the Washington Monument—the world’s largest Egyptian obelisk. Egypt is still.......very much alive.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Powerful, Eye

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.

  Michelle Moran

  Trying, Gone, Body

  Michelle Moran (2007). “Nefertiti: A Novel”, p.452, Broadway Books

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• Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage of the hosts ere they departed northwards for Thebes. At nightfall they returned again and sat side by side at the marriage feast, and once more Tua swept her harp of ivory and gold, and sang the ancient song of him who dared much for love, and won the prize.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Love, Song, Queens

  H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Morning Star”, p.295, The Floating Press

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• Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Pyramids, Long

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.724, Delphi Classics

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• Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Prayer, Heart, People

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.

  Robert Bauval

  Stars, Rivers, Sacred

  Robert Bauval (2007). “The Egypt Code”, p.33, Red Wheel Weiser

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• All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.

  Michael Tsarion

  Country, Cities, Names

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• If you create enough space in Egypt, civil society will revive itself, and then will you have all of these secular forces, liberals, nationalists and others, compete with the Islamists. And then you will see the Islamists reduced to their size.

  Hisham Melhem

  Space, Size, Enough

  "After Egypt's 'Cosmic' Day, Will Army Usher in Democratic, Civilian Government?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 11, 2011.

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• We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

  Anthony Eden

  War, Conflict, Armed Conflict

  1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.

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