Cairo Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never the right course.…
— Mitt Romney
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The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international…
— Abba Eban
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When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's…
— Bert Hellinger
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I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step…
— Yasser Arafat
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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 away. If you’re…
— Randall Munroe
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A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we…
— David Ben-Gurion
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I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying…
— Paul Wolfowitz
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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 answering high beams…
— Chris Hadfield
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A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down…
— Charles Stross
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I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay…
— Charles C. Mann
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Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs with…
— Sebastian Barry
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All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian…
— Tony Horwitz
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Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices,…
— Italo Calvino
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My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the…
— Anwar Sadat
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I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether…
— Zaha Hadid
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From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in…
— Dan Rather
Who Wrote These Cairo Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 32 Cairo Quotes, led by these top contributors: