Egypt Quotes
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People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.
— Sarah Parcak
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
— Noam Chomsky
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
— Ray Bradbury
Only after Eden agreed to leave Egypt unconditionally did Eisenhower arrange a billion-dollar rescue package from the IMF and the Export-Import Bank.
— Niall Ferguson
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
— John Bolton
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
— Rodney Dangerfield
King Alexander, the son of Ammon and of Philip the king, also supreme king of Europe and all Asia, Egypt and Libya, to the Tyrians who are as nothing.
— Richard Stoneman
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
— Elliott Abrams
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
— Cleopatra Egypt
President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.
— Bill Maher
You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
— Anonymous
If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.
— Sarah Parcak
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.
— Ahmed Zewail
Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.
— Dean Koontz
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
— Charleston Parker
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
— Northrop Frye
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
— Gustave Flaubert
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
— Tea Obreht
The first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt.
— James Henry Breasted
We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.
— Pope Theodoros II
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
— William Hague
I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
— James Luceno
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
Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...
— Luis Marques
You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
[ ... ] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago.
— Michael Tsarion
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
— Richard Engel
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
— Nawal El Saadawi
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
— Henry A. Kissinger
We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.
— Rick Riordan
America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
— Elliott Abrams
What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Egypt is the Nile, the Nile Egypt.
— Toby A.H. Wilkinson
11Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of
— Anonymous
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke
What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt?
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can. — Ahdaf Soueif
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can. — Ahdaf Soueif
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
— Charleston Parker
We have here another interesting proof of a connection between XIIth Dynasty Egypt and early Minoan Crete.
— Leonard W. King
The Great Pyramid of Giza. The kind of thing rich people in ancient Egypt did with their money.
— Yuval Noah Harari
it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once
— Elizabeth Payne
An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
— Hosni Mubarak
Egypt restored to prosperity, regenerated by wise and enlightened administration ... would shed its civilizing rays upon all its Oriental neighbors.
— Edward W. Said
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
— Amelia B. Edwards
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Nudity. "Hello," she said. "Have you heard the good word of Wadjet, Protector of Egypt and great snake of the Milky Way?
— Seanan McGuire
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
— Elliott Abrams
An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.
— Luis Marques
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
— Charles Lindbergh
The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).
— Michael Tsarion
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
— Mark Twain
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
— Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
— Naguib Mahfouz
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
— Noam Chomsky
The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.
— Stephanie Dray
I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
— Laurence J. Peter
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.
— Rosemary Mahoney
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
— Michelle Paver
Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
— Mohammed Morsi
There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.
— Ridley Scott
Sheftu," she whispered, "it's all over."
"Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw
"Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw
We want to excite the world about what's out there. But we don't want them to say, 'Oh, there are lots of sites in Egypt - let's loot.'
— Sarah Parcak
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.
— Janet Erskine Stuart
Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.
— Bill Shorten
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
— Lara Logan
During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
— Elliott Abrams
With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.
— Stacy Schiff
But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.
— Roger Wicker
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
— Seneca The Younger
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
— Menachem Begin
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
— C.L. Parker
There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.
— Silvio Berlusconi
Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become.
— Luis Marques
Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.
— Stacy Schiff
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
— Anita Diamant
If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.
— Herman Melville
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
— Meir Kahane
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.
— Ali Gomaa
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
— Idries Shah
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
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
— G. Willow Wilson