Quotes About Pyramids

Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt.

The sun first catches the tops of the pyramids of Giza, which are already some fifteen hundred years old.

People are sleeping in pyramid-shaped spaces a lot now because they think it will keep them young and vital and stop the aging process. I'm not worried about that because I have my wings. However, my ideal

Ancient priests and builders must have known about the earth's magnetism and its strange fluctuations. They located their temples, mounds, and pyramids in the dead center of magnetic anomalies. And they laid out long, arrow-straight tracks or "leys" between these magnetic points.

I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?

I absolutely love the Mena House Oberoi hotel in Cairo, which overlooks the Great Pyramids of Giza.

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.

There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen the Pyramids, and I'd love to explore the culture in North India. I think walking in the Andes would also be awesome.

I love greengrocers. When I walk in I always look at their pyramids of fruit to see if they have done it properly because I thought I was an expert pyramid builder.

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.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. On a sunny day, the sun's energy on a square acre of land or pond can equal 4500 horsepower. These horses heave in every direction, like slaves building pyramids, and fashion, from the bottom up, a new and sturdy world.

but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.

In similar fashion, the assumption that the texts within the pyramids were products of a dawn-land of primitive religion long served to isolate those dark columns of hieroglyphs from the living world that drew them. As Harold Hays, one of the Pyramid Texts' most acute commentators recently observed; 'the agent and event are erased, and without them there is no human history.

Coupled with efficient systems of tithing and supply conducted in the name of pharaoh, the valley's prodigious fertility had promoted such colossal surpluses within the state that, after some four centuries, the government was able to conceive and undertake the construction of four colossal pyramids and their attendant temples.

Din toate epocile istorice, n-aÈ™ putea munci cu sufletul împ?cat decât ca sclav, pe vremea când faraonii în?lÈ›au piramidele. S? ridici la lespezi sub lovituri de bici, dar s? le vezi încununate de veÈ™nicie È™i s? simÈ›i vidul ce se naÈ™te în jurul piramidelor, din dezertarea timpului! Ultimul sclav egiptean era mai aproape de veÈ™nicie decât oricare filosof al Occidentului.

The Egyptologist Dr. Eva Eggebrecht writes in this respect: "The contemporary silence about the construction of the pyramids becomes incomprehensible if we recall that the necropolises were not deathly silent cities of secrecy.... Sacrifices were made, priests came and went.... None of them left as much as a note which would answer even a single question about the construction of the pyramids."11

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

We're in the hands of real magicians here, and real magicians know that with symbols. with the right symbols, with the right questions. they can lead you into initiating yourself. Provided, that is, you are a person who asks questions. And, if you are, then the minute you start asking questions about the pyramids you begin to stumble into a whole series of answers which lead you to other questions, and then more answers until finally you initiate yourself… ~Robert Bauval

A race like these Mayas, who hadn't discovered the wheel and built pyramids and temples in the jungle, where everything becomes smothered in moss and crumbles with damp—what for?

I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

Come disse l'umorista americano Will Cuppy: «La forma stessa delle piramidi è la prova che i lavoratori avevano già la tendenza a fare sempre meno».

If you imagined the human lifespan of sixty years was compressed to a day, then eighty million years would still be 3,652 years—older than the pyramids.