Egypt Quotes · Page 5

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

— Jehane Noujaim

Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.

— Robert Baer

Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.

— Richard Engel

“There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.”

— McKay

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast.

— Richard Engel

The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

— Nachman of Breslov

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

— Silvio Berlusconi

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before…

— Golda Meir

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values…

— Hosni Mubarak

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from…

— Barton Gellman

It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.

— David Brooks

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the…

— Michel de Montaigne

I have a fascination with Egypt. It's the greatest civilization. When the rest of the world was still in darkness, there were…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and…

— Joshua

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw…

— Alicia Keys

We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends,…

— Barack Obama

In the beginning there was Isis: Oldest of the Old, She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming Arose. She was the…

— Merlin Stone

Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere…

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I…

— Jehane Noujaim

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to…

— Aristotle

At festivals there's always one spectator from Egypt who says, 'I like it, it moved me, reminds me of so many things.'…

— Eran Kolirin

It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia…

— George Sarton

“...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

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

“It is beyond dispute that Osiris made his worshipers dream strange things of him, and that he possessed their bodies and souls…

— Frank Belknap Long

Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and…

— Edith Hall

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what…

— George Orwell

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

— Mohammed Morsi

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

— Hillary Clinton

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

— Jud Wilhite

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

— Tea Obreht

I have some friends who were involved in the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt.

— Morgan Spector

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

— Plutarch

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

— Ahmed H. Zewail