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Quotes About Egyptian

While Smith tried to explain how the records of two Hebrew prophets came into the possession of an Egyptian royal family, he left unexplained why, after being handed down for several generations, they should be buried with mummies.
~ Unknown
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
~ Hillary Clinton
Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.
~ Mona Eltahawy
The true issue at stake in the exodus account is not the hostilities between Moses and Pharaoh, or between Moses and the Egyptian magicians, or between Israel and Egypt. What is most important is the contest and battle between Yahweh, the God of Israel, and the Egyptian deities, in particular Re and Pharaoh.
~ Unknown
The concept of the polemic perhaps was at work in the biblical usage of the divine epithet "I am that I am." The God of Israel employed an originally Egyptian term for Re and Pharaoh to demonstrate that they are not sovereign and all-powerful; they do not run the universe. The name "I am that I am" truly and only belongs to the God of the Hebrews. He uniquely is the eternal, sovereign God of the universe!
~ Unknown
There was no art in cultures as ancient as the Egyptian and the Minoan. Conscious art did not exist for them. They wanted only to control. That is how they would want us to judge them - by how well they controlled
~ John Fowles
How often have I held back my complaint: Why should the Lebanese homeland be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Egyptian loaf be incompatible with Palestine? Why should the Syrian roof be incompatible with Palestine? Why should Palestine be incompatible with Palestine?
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Without the mysterious keys carried by the hierophants of the Egyptian, Brahmin, and Persian cults the gates of Wisdom cannot be opened.
~ Unknown
I've heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.The god of the dead.
~ Unknown
When Sue Wears Red When Susanna Jones wears red Her face is like an ancient cameo Turned brown by the age. Come with a blast of trumpets, Jesus! When Susanna Jones wears red A queen from some time-dead Egyptian night Walks once again. Blow trumpets, Jesus! And
~ Unknown
That summer, Egyptian army officers eagerly anticipated their liberation by Rommel's Afrika Korps. They were thrilled by the arrival in Cairo of two German spies, Hans Eppler and another man known only as "Sandy." Captain Sadat was crestfallen, however, to witness the frivolous behaviour of the two agents, whom he found living on the Nile houseboat of the famous belly dancer Hikmet Fahmy.
~ Max Hastings
Love poems, discovered in Egyptian tombs, strongly hint that it was the Egyptian women who did the courting, oftimes wooing the male by plying him with intoxicants to weaken his protestations.
~ Merlin Stone
Therefore, Yoga culture and mysticism is the oldest known tradition of spiritual development and Indian mysticism is an extension of the Ancient Egyptian mysticism.
~ Unknown
Blacks claim their identity and originality from the ancient Egyptian Empire, as do Arabs and Jews. The Whites refused to be left behind in this rat race to turn all Egyptians into whites too.
~ Unknown
The stronger you are or were, the more friends or fake friends you will have in the near future. Because it is only a simple psychological analysis that everyone wants to associate with the ancient Egyptian Empire.
~ Unknown
In 1855, as the price of paper rose, Dr. Deck proposed to dig up 2 1/2 million tons of Egyptian mummies, ship them to New York, unroll them; and use their linen wrappings to make paper.
~ Nicholson Baker
But the Egyptian passion for violence, for killing the goose that lays the eggs- that's a different matter.
~ Unknown
Because the Egyptians had no feeling that events of the moment were transitory, they viewed the present as eternal. The world was static; what seemed like change was only recurrence of the eternal order. Thus, Egyptian literature does not contain careful records of the deeds, or distinctive characteristics of the pharaohs. Rather they are portrayed as the divine ideal, always just, wise, bold, strong, and victorious.
~ Unknown
SET, OR SETH, whom the Greeks called Typhon, the nefarious demon of death and evil in Egyptian mythology, is characterised as "a strong god (a-pahuti), whose anger is to be feared.
~ Paul Carus
Now Abramís wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
~ Genesis 16:1
This is the account of Abrahamís son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarahís maidservant, bore to Abraham.
~ Genesis 25:12
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
~ Exodus 2:11
“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
~ Exodus 2:19
Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
~ Leviticus 24:10