Pyramids Quotes
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Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
— Werner Herzog
Trust in good verse then: They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch
offered an overland excursion to view pyramids and sphinx,
— Jonquil Graham
The Pyramids of Tsort by moonlight!' breathed Ysabell, 'How romantic!'MORTARED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF SLAVES — Terry Pratchett
What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient.
— Ron Rosedale
Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.
— Sherwood Anderson
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.
— Robert Blair
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
— Robert Kennedy
No," he heard a voice on the wind say. "If I had told you, you wouldn't have seen the Pyramids. They're beautiful, aren't they?
— Paulo Coelho
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
— Brigham Young
I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the pyramids built.
— Alan Bradley
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.
— Alice Dunbar Nelson
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
— Caleb Cushing
Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo's David. Versailles. Magnus himself.
— Cassandra Clare
When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids.
— Anne Lamott
I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.
— Franz Kafka
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
Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)
— Aleister Crowley
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
— Caldwell Esselstyn
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
— Terry Pratchett
To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities.
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.
— Rose McGowan
Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.
— Michael Tsarion
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
— Terry Pratchett
I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.
— Justin Zackham
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus
— Cassandra Clare
even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton.
— Dan Simmons
Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.
— Ezra Taft Benson
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
— Rick Riordan
It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
— James Gates Percival
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.
— Gene Roddenberry
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
— James Turrell
The people must have amusement as well as religion ... every pure enjoyment is from heaven.
— Brigham Young
There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
— Martin Buber
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.
— Kendrick Lamar
The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.
— Karl Pilkington
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
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.
— Karl Pilkington
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
When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.
— Donald Trump
