Best Egypt Thoughts
293 Egypt quotes by 203 unique authors
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Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis…
— Steven Spielberg
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
— Mark Twain
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the…
— Molly Ivins
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Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I…
— Helen Keller
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(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.
— Robert Baer
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London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.
— Laura Fraser
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All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance…
— J. G. Ballard
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It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...
— Ray Bradbury
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Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south,…
— Cassandra Clare
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If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been…
— George Orwell
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Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new…
— Helen Keller
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Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look, and I could…
— Rick Riordan
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The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful…
— Rick Riordan
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Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment.…
— Rick Riordan
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Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street…
— Billy Sunday
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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?
— Voltaire
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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand…
— Ray Bradbury
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In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue…
— Anita Diament
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On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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