166 Egypt Quotes for You to Enjoy

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Mark Twain

Denial River Egypt Just

I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. Gilbert Gottfried

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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. Henry Kissinger

War You Peace Syria East Make Without Egypt Middle Middle East

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names. Jane Goodall

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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye

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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. Eric Alterman

In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map. Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing a really big, big reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was somewhat under control. Donald Trump

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In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times. Elizabeth Debicki

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You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc. Mohamed ElBaradei

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These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt. Ahmed Ben Bella

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Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights. Ahmed Zewail

Work Rights Protection Will Values Minority Guided Secularism More Majority Islamic Governance Than Any Egypt Theocracy

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base. Ahmed Zewail

Science Tremendous Resources Correct Egypt Human Just Human Resources Base Need

When Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt in 2012, many in the country, including me, were hopeful that he would become a democratic president for all Egyptians - not only for the Muslim Brotherhood. Ahmed Zewail

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Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties. Ahmed Zewail

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The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future. Ahmed Zewail

Future Youth Old Visions Take Egypt Movement Aware

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy. Ahmed Zewail

Democracy Constitution Liberty First East Had Allowed Egypt Middle Middle East

In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children. Ahmed Zewail

Education Good Family Suffering Every System Secure Deteriorated Most Schooling Families Egypt Children Want Regime Mubarak Good Education University

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