Pyramids Quotes - Page 5

• I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Running, Animal, Two

  "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Baby, Block, Book

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• What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Example, Culture, Mexico

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Band, Wagons, Found

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• Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Together, More Time, Recreation

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• For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Issues, Foundation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

  Molly Ivins

  Hard Times, Thinking, Egypt

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• The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

  Tom Vilsack

  Giving, Doe, Complicated

  "Plate icon to guide Americans to healthier eating" by Madison Park, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Egypt, Kind, Interest

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• I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

  Karl Pilkington

  Believe, Games, Hands

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

  David Berg

  Garden, Cities, Heaven

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

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Dog, Egypt

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• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Rome, Paris

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• On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid.

  Michael Hudson

  Income, Flat Tax, Made

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

  Daniel Handler

  Psychology, Pills, Pudding

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• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

  Brigham Young

  Serious, Pursuit, Recreation

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• To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Healthy, Persons, Activity

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• People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.

  Marion D. Hanks

  People, Needs, Cost

  Marion D. Hanks (1974). “The Gift of Self”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

  Dan Brown

  Doors, Answers, Harvard

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.

  Brigham Young

  Law, Study, Recreation

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.132

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• The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids, the whole inside is a burial chamber. So they were really gravesites to nobility.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Egypt, Differences, Mexican

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Fun, Son

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• Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

  Gene Cernan

  Dream, Technology, Keys

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• I'm just worried that the technology I invented in that story ["The Pyramid and the Ass" ] will become real, and George W. Bush will be able to clone into a new body and be "re-elected" due to a clone-bill passed by him and his cronies. God forbid!

  Alexander Weinstein

  Real, Technology, Bills

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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, Pharaohs, Building

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