Pharaohs Quotes

• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Memories, Dating, Literature

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• I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

  Big Sean

  Kings, Thinking, Gold

  "Chain Reaction: Big Sean's Lessons in Rapper Jewelry". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. April 10, 2012.

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• You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become.

  Jaden Smith

  Mean

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• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Thinking, Sweat, Pyramids

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• Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.

  John Hagee

  People, Difficult, Cursed

  John Hagee's keynote address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), March 12, 2007.

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• Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

  Margaret Halsey

  Daughter, Identity, Way

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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, Egypt, Pyramids

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

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• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

  Louis MacNeice

  Cat, Grace, Tails

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pyramids, Other Worlds, Matter

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• Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

  Moses

  Children, Israel, Egypt

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• A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Integrity, Pyramids

  "Memoirs" by Pierre Trudeau, (Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366), 1993.

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• In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

  Desmond Tutu

  Powerful, Grace, Encounters

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• For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Cat, Race, Feet

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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, Egypt

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• I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

  George Meyer

  Strong

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Grace

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• The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.

  R. J. Palacio

  Memories, Hero, Egyptian Pyramids

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fate, Japan

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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• ...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

  Michael Tsarion

  Khufu, Pyramids, Building

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• Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

  Michelle Malkin

  Character, White, House

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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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• Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

  Michael Hardt

  Doe, Revolution, Letting You Go

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• We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

  Rick Riordan

  Rocks, Gold, World

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

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• Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Order, Pyramids

  "Ben Carson, Joseph in Egypt, and the Attack on Rational Thought" by Gary Leupp, www.counterpunch.org. November 27, 2015.

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