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
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work,… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded. — Jeff Chapman 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
God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled… — Fiorello H. La Guardia 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
Ah teach me bout Marco Polo and Napoleon. Nah teach me nothin' 'bout the river Nile bank. Where civilization it began. You… — Capleton 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
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island.… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one… — Giorgio Moroder 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
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
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are… — Akhenaton 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
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
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The Nile has long nourished women and men alike. On the Nile and the magical, river-island Temple of Philae, Florence Nightingale was… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a… — Vincent Canby 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
As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the… — Thomas Sydenham 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
I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon,… — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river… — Sarah Parcak 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
“If love was a river, then Martha's was the Nile: enormous, life-giving, and at regular intervals capable of drowning you in murk… — Nan Willard Cappo Copy Share Image
Nile perch is a fish that was introduced into Lake Victoria. The reason that fish was introduced into Lake Victoria was because… — Wangari Maathai 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
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
Now when Nile perch was introduced [into Lake Victoria], I don't think enough research was done; maybe it was done, maybe it… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of… — Jon Pareles 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
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student… — James Henry Breasted 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
Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and… — Johnny Marr 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
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image