Pyramids Quotes

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Looks, Height

  Speech to his troops in Egypt, July 21, 1798.

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  Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Writing, Write Your Own

  Song: HiiiiPoWeR, Album: Section 80

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• The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

  Vera Nazarian

  Secret, Shapes, Wonder

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• Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sky, Mind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.15

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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, Justice

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• Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

  James Henry Breasted

  Childhood, Vision, Wonderland

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• The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Names, History, Age

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• There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Moments, Crisis, Apex

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• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  One Day, Might, Longing

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Crush, Time, Jesus

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Saws

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

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• We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

  Caleb Cushing

  Government, Foundation, May

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• When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Sleep, Past

  "Kanye West Has a Goblet" by Jonah Weiner, www.slate.com. August 25, 2010.

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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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• When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

  Walter Cronkite

  Stars, Years, Ideas

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• The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Egypt, Lasts, Architecture

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• Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

  James Gates Percival

  Memorial Day, Green, Monument

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.286

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• Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

  Eugene S. Ferguson

  Art, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Clever, Hard Work, Ancient

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• Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Circles, Anarchy, Individual

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

  Terry Pratchett

  Trust, Smirk, Grinning

  "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 171), January 2008.

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• The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Perfection, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.280, Delphi Classics

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• It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life And Death, Appreciate Life, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mirrors, Insulting, Would Be

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

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