Comparison Quote by Howard Carter

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go…

— Gregory Corso

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have…

— Zahi Hawass

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a…

— Josh McDowell

With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We…

— Howard Carter

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

— Victor Hugo

There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into…

— Erich Maria Remarque

I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for…

— Howard Carter

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

— Zahi Hawass

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward…

— Howard Carter

TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted…

— Ambrose Bierce

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

— Bram Stoker

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were…

— Karl Philipp Moritz