Egyptian Quotes

• I think Egyptian authorities have not yet gotten the measure of the Sinai problem.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Problem
  • Authorities
  • Sinai

• ...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones

  

  Carleton S. Coon
  • Long
  • Modern
  • Class

• What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Long
  • King
  • Anything

• In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • World
  • Mean
  • Everyday

• The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.

  

  Stephan El Shaarawy
  • Dreaming
  • Jersey
  • Egyptian

• With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mirror
  • Reader
  • Visions

• Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

  

  Eero Saarinen
  • Purpose
  • Pyramids
  • Arch

• It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.

  

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn
  • Genesis
  • Egyptian
  • Depiction

• I want to be the best Egyptian ever, so I work hard.

  

  Mohamed Salah
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Egyptian

• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Results
  • Intellect
  • Germ

• The Egyptian Army is a great patriotic army, The Egyptian Army is a very noble and tough army, and it's toughness comes from it's nobility.

  

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
  • Army
  • Noble
  • Egyptian

• Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.

  

  Judy Reyes
  • Economy
  • Citizens
  • Reputation

• The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.

  

  Menachem Begin
  • Army
  • Approach
  • Concentration

• Even if these stories are 3,000 years old, there's still so much about the characters, about the dilemmas, about their understanding of the universe that still resonates. The whole idea of order and chaos, which is really central to the ancient Egyptian understanding of the world, is still very much with us.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • Understanding
  • Ancient
  • Dilemmas

• The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Media
  • Social
  • Egyptian

• Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Home
  • Forever
  • Egyptian

• I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful
  • Following

• Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Life
  • Country
  • Color