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Egyptian Quotes by Rick Riordan
- I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other…
- Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. "Like that cartoon," Sadie…
- Brother dear,” I said, “did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods real. Red Lord…
- Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But…
- With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His…
- Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I…
- Poseidon’s trident was also all over the place, since Peter the Great wanted to stress Russia’s sea power. I especially like the trident on top…
- He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled a laugh. "Ja-hooty?"…
- Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to…
- I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through the palm trees,…
- You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian…
- All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last…
- A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?…
- After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track…
More Egyptian Quotes
- It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no… — 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… — Erma Bombeck
- The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as… — 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… — Hillary Clinton
- What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god… — 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… — 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… — Sheila Heti
- May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land,… — 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… — Ray Bradbury
- The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be… — Menachem Begin