Egyptian Quotes - Page 7

• We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

  Henri Rousseau

  Two, Style, Eras

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• The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.965, Library of America

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• The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, Epic

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• What was I saying? An Egyptian king
  Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

  Allen Tate

  Kings, Twilight, Long

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.194, Macmillan

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• As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Country, House, Tree

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.225, e-artnow

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• Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.

  Omar Samra

  Country, Lying, Pride

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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

  Egypt, People, Earth

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• I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Egyptian Pyramids, Years, Historical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

  Tom Standage

  Beer, Men, Mouths

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• You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Toothbrushes, Cemetery

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• Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.

  Mickey Hart

  Simple, Play, Airports

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• Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Animal, Men, Egypt

  Rudolf Steiner (2016). “Egyptian Myths And Mysteries”, p.116, Youcanprint

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• Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

  Alan Kay

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Technology

  "A Conversation with Alan Kay: Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman in ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

  Dion Fortune

  Christian, School, Dark

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• If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.

  Erich Fromm

  Christian, Mean, Reflection

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Friday, Communication, Bad Ass

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Country, Rain

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.8, Harper Collins

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

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Egypt, Usual, Revolution

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• My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Views, Two

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.214, Psychology Press

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• Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

  Gerald Massey

  Christian, Jesus, Unique

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• The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.

  Menachem Begin

  Army, Honest, Sinai

  Menachem Begin's speech at the National Defense College, www.nytimes.com. August 8, 1982.

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