My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“which he needs time and privacy. What better way of keeping us in Cairo,” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
I thought it was interesting to see that Israel did not play a role in this revolution. The man on Cairo's Tahrir… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There hasn't been a lot written about it in the Western media. But in the Arab world, and Western Asia as a… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
“Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn’t sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Paris on the Nile’ or the ‘finery of Cairo’, Al-Ismailiya – a district to which Ismael gave his name – comprised large,… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The difference was principally in the invisible places toward which their respective hearts were turned. They dreamed of Cairo with its autonomous… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
“General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt's head of antiquities would return… — Michele Bonnell Copy Share Image
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere… — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He spoke in a low, threatening voice, appearing to be in some sort of a trance. "Anyone who shall interfere with my… — Kate McVaugh Copy Share Image
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon.… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“Mansour earned the nickname "Al-Turbiny," from the air-conditioned express trains linking Cairo with Egypt's second city Alexandria, whose roofs were the favored… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations. — Reinhard Bonnke Copy Share Image