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Egyptian Quotes
Echoes of an ancient civilization.
This Egyptian quotes page highlights how deeply ancient mythology still lingers in everyday language, including the surprising origin behind a common word people say without realizing its roots. For more on world traditions, see our Culture quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the basest of reasons. And in the American school, I struggled. Everything - mathematics, the sciences, pottery, swimming - had to be conducted in a language I hardly knew and that was neither spoken in the streets nor at home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It won't matter who starts and who plays, the most important thing is the Egyptian national team and we will do our best.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If President Obama really means what he has said repeatedly about supporting the aspirations of the Egyptian people, then he will have to recognize that in Egypt today, as in America in 1963, that can mean opposing government policy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in middle school, I loved Egyptian mythology.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.
- Egyptians
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- Nov 07, 2020