Cairo Quote by Richard Engel

“a station chief, admonishing him for “killing Indians just for sport,” knowing that laborers were scarce and reminding him that one should have recourse…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I loved the Four Seasons in Cairo.

— Phillip Schofield

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient…

— Italo Calvino

The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time…

— Rick Riordan

“Paris on the Nile’ or the ‘finery of Cairo’, Al-Ismailiya – a district to which Ismael gave his name – comprised large, wide avenues,…

— Tarek Osman

In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they don't have…

— Bill Ayers

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

— Augusten Burroughs

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If…

— Randall Munroe

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami…

— Dan Rather

“Mansour earned the nickname "Al-Turbiny," from the air-conditioned express trains linking Cairo with Egypt's second city Alexandria, whose roofs were the favored location for…

— John R. Bradley

Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of…

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or…

— Victor Davis Hanson

In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than…

— Charles C. Mann

My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change…

— Anwar Sadat

Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to…

— Leila Fadel