Egypt Quotes

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

— Tea Obreht

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

— James Patterson

“Egypt, plebiscitary authoritarianism rules;”

— Anonymous

“Egypt is the Nile, the Nile Egypt.”

— Toby Wilkinson

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

Awe I guess I'm the prince of Egypt. =D

— Matthew Lush

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

— Marc Antony

“Conformity is deformity”

— Sharon Desruisseaux

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

— Robert Wilson

The State of Israel has no intention of evacuating Palestinian civilians to Egypt.

— Yoav Gallant

It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

— John Gunther

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

— Laura Fraser

You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

— Anonymous

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).

— Michael Tsarion

There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer…

— Richard Engel

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

— Leonard Woolley

Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes…

— James Chiles

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

— Naguib Mahfouz

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries.

— Samuel P. Huntington

On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally…

— George Mikes

By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people…

— Charlie Sheen

To me, Egypt is a wonderful history, a wonderful people, and it's represented through artists like Om Kalthoum, who is considered the…

— Mona Eltahawy

Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou…

— Charles Spurgeon

Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human…

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes

“When I first arrived in Egypt many years ago, I looked at the tombs like a tourist. After being to them all…

— G. P. Warren

Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content.…

— Wael Ghonim

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But…

— Walter Russell Mead

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide…

— Frank Gaffney

I am convinced that a multi-faceted dialogue between Russia and Egypt will continue to deepen and expand for the benefit of the…

— Vladimir Putin

“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of…

— Suzy Kassem

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give…

— Charles Busch

It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and…

— David Hume

“After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and…

— Graham Hancock

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several…

— Plato

Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up…

— Judith Butler

We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived…

— Fred Alan Wolf