Euphrates Quotes

#1. Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

Alison McGhee

#2. The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

David Ben-Gurion

#3. During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

Theodor Mommsen

#4. She came to the Cleopatra and her attention was immediately drawn to the side-by-side Tigris and Euphrates Towers. Her

Michael Connelly

#5. Paradise; some place it on Mount Ararat, others between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates; it

Various

#6. Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

#7. Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

Joshua

#8. I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps
located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

Eric Weiner

#11. If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.

Umar

#12. 18 So that day Jehovah made this covenant with Abram: "I have given this land to your descendants from the Wadi-el-Arish[*] to the Euphrates River. 19-21 And I give to them these nations: Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Jebusites.

Anonymous

#13. Contrary to common public opinion, Iraq is not simply about oil. It is also about water and geopolitics. Both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through Iraq; thus, of all the countries in that part of the world, Iraq controls the most important sources of increasingly critical water resources.

John Perkins

#14. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua

#15. Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates - a very good game, by the way - I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even

Jeffery Deaver

#16. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically.

Stephen Kinzer

#17. on the west, the Atlantic Ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the north; the Euphrates on the east; and towards the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Africa. ^4

Edward Gibbon

#18. The section of Aramaeans that pressed its way from the Euphrates southward, and drove the Edomites out of Petra, was afterwards known as Nabataean.

John Courtenay James

#19. If you start telling the truth it will sound leftist to people on the right, rightist to people on the left, and insane to the insane.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#20. Criticism reflects more on the judge than on the subject.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#21. A good imagination doesn't eschew limitations, it embraces them!

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#22. Any concession made from the truth, big or small, does not create a part-truth; it creates a lie.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#23. Artistry is in how you apply the tool; genius is knowing when to lift it.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#24. If you splurge on expensive booze you may be an alcoholic. If you go for the well on the other hand... you may be an alcoholic.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#25. One cannot strategize for a hand that has yet to be dealt.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#26. Those who act like a rug invite being walked all over.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#27. Trouble never turns down an invitation.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#28. Every lesson in life is worth learning except for the ones you can't afford.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#29. A second-thought's kindness can purchase a kingdom of regard.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#30. What you'd have done do; what not delegate.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#31. If you aren't sure of the rules then follow them. If you are sure of the rules break them.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#32. Pity is nary a friend you want to invite, nor an acquaintance you would accompany.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#33. It is infinitely better to know when to stay silent than to know when to speak.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss

#34. Concerning days on which to rest, Sundays are rather apt. Other good days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Euphrates Arnaut Moss