Egypt Quotes
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Lo, thou trusted in thestaff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
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More Egypt Quotes
Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
moses— Exodus 3:11 (KJV)
Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
— 3:11 (KJV)
Sir Anthony Eden has been pretending that he is now invading Egypt in order to strengthen the United Nations. Every burglar of course could say the same thing, he could argue that he was entering the house in order to train the police. So, if Sir Anthony Eden is sincere in what he is saying, and he may be, he may be, then if he is sincere in what he is saying then he is too stupid to be a prime minister.
Aneurin Bevan— Speech on November 4th at "Law not War" rally in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Suez crisis of 1956.
It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt , Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.
george sarton— Preface (A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952))
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there wasnot a house wherethere wasnot one dead.
Bible (Old Testament)— Exodus12:30.
Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.
strabo— 17.1.12-13
In reference to the area of the Jewish state: From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.
theodor herzl— As quoted in Complete Diaries by Theodor Herzl, Volume II, page 711.
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
Northrop Frye— Chapter Five, p. 106
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
benjamin graham— Chapter V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
camille paglia— p. 239 (Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf)
Ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt and Rome have all disappeared from this world, but the elements of our civilization still continue. Although world-events have been inimical to us for centuries, there is something in our civilization which has withstood these onslaughts.
— Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938), Vedic Revelations
I am the L thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Bible (Old Testament)— ORDPsalms 81:10.
I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!
ahmed djemal— Quoted in "On Secret Service East of Constantinople" - Page 77 - by Peter Hopkirk - History - 2001
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,And times and things, as in that vision, seemKeeping along it their eternal stands.
leigh hunt— A Thought of the Nile
Reporter: Do you mean to say that if Israel did not exist, there would suddenly be democracy in Egypt, that the schools in Morocco would be better, that the public clinics in Jordan would function better?Sheikh: I think so.
ahmed sheikh— Source: World Politics Watch, 7 December 2006.
Before Egypt, long before travelling to that time and place or any other became even a remote possibility, Mina had paid her dues. Haltingly, painstakingly, maddeningly.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 104 (The Bone House (2011))
The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus .
isaac newton— Vol. I, Ch. 12: Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.
fernand braudel— Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations , Penguin, 1995, p.54
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, History.
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.
fernand braudel— Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilizations , Penguin, 1995, p.54
[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis , has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.
godfrey higgins— Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis (1833) pg. 787
Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear; While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Age of Bronze, V.
I do not believe that in Egypt we can prohibit it [polygamy] by law....Polygamy cannot be prevented by force, but through education.
Suzanne Mubarak— Polygamy and Female Circumcision Can Only Be Abolished Through Education, Not by Force. A Female Egyptian President - Not in the Near Future March 2007
These are the orders issued by the creature of Allah, Ali, the son Abu Taalib (a) to Maalik, the son of Ashtar when he appointed Maalik as the Governor of Egypt to collect Zakat there, to combat the enemies of Islam and Egypt, to work for the welfare of its people and to look after its prosperity.
— Part of the epistle to Malik al-Ashtar
It cannot be made, it shall not be made, it will not be made; but if it were made there would be a war between France and England for the possession of Egypt.
temple, henry, 3rd viscount palmerston— Speech, 1851, referring to the Suez Canal (an example of an indiscreet and unfulfilled prophecy).
