Mummies Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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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
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The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution,…
— Karl Marx
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Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.
— Hakim Bey
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Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
— Ralph Caplan
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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a…
— Isabel Allende
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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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You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
— Rick Riordan
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You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said.…
— Cassandra Clare
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These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies,…
— Dave Barry
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I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.
— Svante Paabo
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
— H R Giger
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
— Zahi Hawass
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There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies.…
— Henry Miller
Who Wrote These Mummies Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Mummies Quotes as follows: