Egypt Quotes

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

— Tea Obreht

“Egypt, plebiscitary authoritarianism rules;”

— Anonymous

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

— S.F. Chandler

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

— Mark Twain

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

— Herodotus

“Conformity is deformity”

— Sharon Desruisseaux

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

— William Hague

Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

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

— Anonymous

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

— Yoav Gallant

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

— Robert Wilson

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

— Laura Fraser

I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

— Jehane Noujaim

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.

— Hosni Mubarak

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

— Ian Brown

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in…

— Mena Massoud

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

— Leonard Woolley

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

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

— Samuel P. Huntington

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

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political…

— J. Christopher Herold

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

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

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

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

There is not a revolution that succe Saudi Arabia paid $7 billion for the Salafists to come, and the United States and…

— Nawal El Saadawi

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations…

— James Henry Breasted

Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight,…

— Helen Keller

Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and…

— Andre Vltchek

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

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

— Suzy Kassem

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

— David Hume

“There were some hours to spare before his ship sailed, and having deposited his luggage, including a locked leather despatch-case, on board,…

— E.F. Benson

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

If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for…

— Donald Rumsfeld

“The fall of dusk upon the Egyptian scene is an unforgettable event, an event of unearthly beauty. Everything is transformed in colour…

— Paul Brunton

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their…

— Alaa Al Aswany

Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite…

— Gerald Massey