Egypt Quotes

• The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

  Golda Meir

  Running, Fighting, Sea

  Life Magazine (p. 32), October 3, 1969.

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• Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Dream, Memories, Mystery

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• It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

  Herodotus

  Country, World, Wonder

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• If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Moving, People, Looks

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jan 13, 2011

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

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Usual, Revolution, Making History

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• Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

  Herodotus

  Nile

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• Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

  George Takei

  Wall, Writing, Cat

  FaceBook post by George Takei from Mar 30, 2013

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• Egypt is a sovereign nation.

  William Hague

  Sovereign, Nations

  "Foreign Secretary: 'We are on the side of a stable democratic future for Egypt'". "Andrew Marr Show", www.gov.uk. February 6, 2011.

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• It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Dust, Smell

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• Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

  Kathleen Troia McFarland

  Country, Important, Regions

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• By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.

  James Henry Breasted

  Art, Civilization, Culture

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• In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Subordination, Subordinates

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Pyramids, Lasts, Architecture

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• Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

  Hassan Fathy

  Inspirational, Feet, Architecture

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• Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Night, Black, Dresses

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Country, Ordeals, Other Countries

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• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

  Pierre Loti

  Fascination, Magazines, Astonishment

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• But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

  Roger Wicker

  Friends, People, Tough

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• There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

  James Henry Breasted

  Land, Civilization, Bridges

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• In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz finally proves the existence of the legendary 'sacred science' of the Ancients and systematically demonstrates its modus operandi. It was this great science-based upon an intimate and exact knowledge of cosmic principles-that fused art, religion, science, and philosophy into one coherent whole and sustained Ancient Egypt for three thousand years.

  John Anthony West

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Years, Eras, Exodus

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• To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.

  Plutarch

  Inspiration, Other Worlds, Greek

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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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• 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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