Cleopatra Egypt Quotes

#1. Selene's life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women's equality hasn't always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.

Stephanie Dray

#2. This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude,

Eddie McGuire

#3. THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

Ken Hensley

#4. When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

Edmund Hillary

#5. The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Cynthia Ozick

#6. The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

Alison Pill

#7. Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.

Stacy Schiff

#8. I was startled by his touch. I hadn't realized he was so close to me, because I seemed so far from myself.

Stephanie Dray

#9. There's always a door you don't get in. I'm a star in my own right for certain things. I'll own that. During Oscar weekend I did fabulous things. But there's still one inner sanctum I'm not allowed in. That's the one I'm fixated on.

Kevin Sessums

#10. There's no use being satisfied when things
are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Bill Nichols

#11. The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.

Stephanie Dray

#12. For all its erudition, Cleopatra's Egypt produced no fine historian.

Stacy Schiff

#13. I've done goodbyes before, and I can do this one, too. Somehow this one hurts worse than the others; because this one I could prevent if I wanted to, since I'm the one saying it. This goodbye comes with a choice the way none of the others did.

Katja Millay

#14. CLEOPATRA: My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

William Shakespeare

#15. In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

Cleopatra Egypt

#16. I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

Idi Amin

#17. Caesar tarried in Egypt, Taking in all the spoils, The Lighthouse, the Library, Queen Cleopatra and Her many-perfumed oils.

Margaret George

#18. To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.

Herophilos

#19. Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

Paul Bettany

#20. If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he'd be in it.

Brett Morris

#21. Conformity is deformity

Sharon Desruisseaux

#22. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

Enoch Powell

#23. Bernice III was the first queen of Egypt to rule without a consort in over a millennium. Though her reign was brief, her example inspired her descendant Cleopatra to rule alone.

Kris Waldherr

#24. A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#25. We have ample testimony to her sense of humor; Cleopatra was a wit and a prankster. There is no cause to question how she read Herodotus's further assertion that Egypt was a country in which the women urinate standing up, the men sitting down.

Stacy Schiff

#26. I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.

Stephanie Dray

#27. I love 'Star Wars,' you know, and I can't remember the last story meeting I've been in where 'Star Wars' wasn't referenced. It's so perfect in so many ways.

Jon Favreau