Nile Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded… — Henry David Thoreau
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with… — Kuki Gallmann
You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there… — Nicholas Stern
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make… — Giuseppe Mazzini
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to… — David Ben-Gurion
Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that… — Eratosthenes
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the openingÂ of the north-flowing riverâ€™s delta, with Jerusalemâ€™s answering high beams… — Chris Hadfield
India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the… — Megasthenes
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing… — Carol P. Christ
Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the… — Vincent Canby
If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions. — Tertullian
The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt â€˜the gift of the Nileâ€™. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred… — Robert Bauval
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. — Mark Twain
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile… — Jon Pareles
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile. — William Winwood Reade
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle… — P.J. O'Rourke
God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to… — Robert Ardrey

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