Egyptian Quotes

122 quotes by 88 authors

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as… — Honore de Balzac
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I… — Erma Bombeck
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president… — Graydon Carter
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind… — Hillary Clinton
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved… — Edwin Percy Whipple
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion.… — Whitley Strieber
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry… — Sheila Heti
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency… — George Washington
We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the… — Ray Bradbury
The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves.… — Menachem Begin
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. — Ambrose Bierce
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not… — J C Ryle
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen… — Rudolf Steiner
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the… — Joseph McCabe
It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it. — Zahi Hawass

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