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I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.
— Stephanie Dray
People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.
— Sarah Parcak
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
— Noam Chomsky
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
— Ray Bradbury
Only after Eden agreed to leave Egypt unconditionally did Eisenhower arrange a billion-dollar rescue package from the IMF and the Export-Import Bank.
— Niall Ferguson
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
— John Bolton
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
— Rodney Dangerfield
King Alexander, the son of Ammon and of Philip the king, also supreme king of Europe and all Asia, Egypt and Libya, to the Tyrians who are as nothing.
— Richard Stoneman
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
— Elliott Abrams
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
— Cleopatra Egypt
I was startled by his touch. I hadn't realized he was so close to me, because I seemed so far from myself.
— Stephanie Dray
President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.
— Bill Maher
Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
— Noam Chomsky
If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.
— Sarah Parcak
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
— Harry S. Truman
Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.
— Dean Koontz
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
— Charleston Parker
In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
— Barton Gellman
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
— Maajid Nawaz
It's not that Egypt doesn't have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.
— David Brooks
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.
— Gustave Flaubert
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.
— Tea Obreht
The first physician who is known to have counted the pulse, Herophilos of Alexandria (born 300 B.C.), lived in Egypt.
— James Henry Breasted
We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.
— Pope Theodoros II
Egypt is a sovereign nation.
— William Hague
I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.
— James Luceno
We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.
— Rick Riordan
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
— Meir Kahane
It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
— George W. Bush
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
— Idries Shah
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
— Nawal El Saadawi
I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.
— Hesham Qandil
What Hassan i Sabbah learned in Egypt was that paradise actually exists and that it can be reached. The Egyptians called it the Western Lands.
— William S. Burroughs
America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
— Elliott Abrams
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Egypt is the Nile, the Nile Egypt.
— Toby A.H. Wilkinson
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke
What's twenty years, fifty years in the life of Egypt?
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can. — Ahdaf Soueif
As long as some of us hold on and do what we can. — Ahdaf Soueif
Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life
— Charleston Parker
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
— Ahmed Zewail
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
— Nawal El Saadawi
It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!
— Bassem Youssef
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
— Amelia B. Edwards
I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.
— Jane Birkin
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
— Charles Lindbergh
11Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of
— Anonymous
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
— Elliott Abrams
It's not that Jesus is the copy of Israel coming out of Egypt, but that Israel coming out of Egypt was the copy - in advance - of Jesus.
— Russell D. Moore
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
— Henry A. Kissinger
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book ... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt ...
— Ray Bradbury
Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.
— Ahmed Zewail
What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.
— Rosemary Mahoney
It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.
— Michael Tsarion
But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.
— Roger Wicker
There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.
— Ridley Scott
The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.
— Stephanie Dray
I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
— Laurence J. Peter
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
— G. Willow Wilson
With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.
— Stacy Schiff
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
— Michelle Paver
During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
— Elliott Abrams
Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.
— Mohammed Morsi
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
— Noam Chomsky
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
— Lara Logan
We want to excite the world about what's out there. But we don't want them to say, 'Oh, there are lots of sites in Egypt - let's loot.'
— Sarah Parcak
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.
— Janet Erskine Stuart
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.
— Anita Diamant
Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.
— Bill Shorten
Sheftu," she whispered, "it's all over."
"Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw
"Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning. — Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
— Menachem Begin
The Great Pyramid of Giza. The kind of thing rich people in ancient Egypt did with their money.
— Yuval Noah Harari
There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.
— Silvio Berlusconi
Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become.
— Luis Marques
Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.
— Stacy Schiff
We have here another interesting proof of a connection between XIIth Dynasty Egypt and early Minoan Crete.
— Leonard W. King
If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.
— Herman Melville
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
— Seneca The Younger
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.
— Ali Gomaa
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
— C.L. Parker