Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth! — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“Khaemwaset’s eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank… — Pauline Gedge Copy Share Image
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some… — Kuki Gallmann Copy Share Image
I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth;… — Megasthenes Copy Share Image
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful,… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy.… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love -… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and… — John Hanning Speke Copy Share Image
To a man talking about God is like using a spoon to get water from the Nile. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem… — Joseph Fort Newton 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
There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Agatha Christie, my favourite film is 'Death On the Nile.' — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we… — Eratosthenes Copy Share Image
You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining. — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed… — Robert Bauval Copy Share Image
