Top 100 Quotes About Alexandria
#1. Everyone dies, but in the end it comes down to what you are willing to die for, Alexandria.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#2. We see the fitness of His death and of those outstretched arms: it was that He might draw His ancient people with the one and the Gentiles with the other, and join both together in Himself.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#3. Oh, to be held as though nothing else in the world mattered. It was a promise. Every touch, every kiss, was a silent pact to love and adore the person to whom it was given.
Alexandria Clarke
#4. I love you," Kenneth said, with terrible dispassion, "but I would not burn the Library of Alexandria for you"; and Anita, drily sobbing, cried, "You son of a bitch.
Jincy Willett
#5. What is your name?" I asked, voice hoarse.
"Alexandria," she repeated in a soft voice I'd never heard Alex use in real life.
"And who am I?"
"Aiden." She smiled, and I flinched. "You are my Master.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#6. Since there is no final destination, do your best to fall in love with the journey.
Rachel Alexandria
#7. There were thus two things which the Savior did for us by becoming Man. He banished death from us and made us anew; and, invisible and imperceptible as in Himself He is, He became visible through His works and revealed Himself as the Word of the Father, the Ruler and King of the whole creation.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#8. He's a gazillionaire. I barely make expenses every month. He owns mansions all over the world; I co-rent a townhouse in Alexandria with my best friend. Women fall all over themselves to go out with him. I haven't had a date since forever.
Magda Alexander
#9. Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.
Stacy Schiff
#10. I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire.
Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#11. It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century B.C., the cynics were the fashion, especially in Alexandria. They published little sermons pointing out how easy it is to do without material possessions,
Bertrand Russell
#12. For, indeed, everything about is marvelous, and wherever a man turns his gaze he sees the Godhead of the Word and is smitten with awe.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#13. The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.
Clement Of Alexandria
#14. Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.
Clement Of Alexandria
#15. A good-sized Ptolemaic vessel could carry three hundred tons of wheat down the river. At least two such ships made the trip daily - with wheat, barley, lentils - to feed Alexandria alone.
Stacy Schiff
#16. Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.
Shereen El Feki
#17. Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.
Clement Of Alexandria
#18. For God has not only created us from nothing, but also granted us by the grace of the Word to live a life according to God.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#19. Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful
Cyril Of Alexandria
#20. It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.
Syncletica Of Alexandria
#21. Love in my world usually ended up with someone hearing "I smite thee!" as she was cursed to be some lame flower for the rest of her life.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#22. You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#24. The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!
Clement Of Alexandria
#25. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!
William Shakespeare
#26. Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
Ahmed Zewail
#27. I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep."
"That's all," Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, "a long clean sleep.
Annie Fisher
#28. During the first century A.D., Alexandria was a veritable hotbed of mystical activity, a crucible in which Judaic, Mithraic, Zoroastrian, Pythagorean, Hermetic, and neo-Platonic doctrines suffused the air and combined with innumerable others.
Michael Baigent
#30. Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
Meir Kahane
#31. The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.
Eric Flint
#32. We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today
Ismail Serageldin
#33. Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#35. Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-.
Jack McDevitt
#36. Really, it's amazing. You are his other half, Alexandria, You are fated to be with him. You belong to him."
It felt like something sat heavy on my chest. "Oh.Oh.No."
Seth frowned at me. "You don't have to sound so disgusted.
Jenny Trout
#37. The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable
Brewster Kahle
#38. Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.
Edward Gibbon
#39. He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
Clement Of Alexandria
#41. For we were the purpose of his embodiment, and for our salvation he so loved human beings as to come to be and appear in a human body.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#42. Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
Philo Of Alexandria
#43. Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.
Mike Aquilina
#45. THOMASINA:
But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
Tom Stoppard
#46. We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.
Clement Of Alexandria
#47. This was pretty much when the Guards behind me decided they were going to try to make me do this. And that is when I decided I was going to be hitting someone again.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#48. People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
Kenneth Clark
#49. The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
Clement Of Alexandria
#50. We must not, then, aspire to please the multitude. For we do not practice what will please them, but what we know is remote from their disposition. "Let us not be desirous of vainglory," says the apostle, "provoking one another, envying one another.
Clement Of Alexandria
#51. I call him truly learned who brings everything to bear on the truth, so that from geometry, music, grammar, and philosophy itself, culling what is usefule, he guards the faith against assault.
Clement Of Alexandria
#52. Euclid, who was still, when I was young, the sole acknowledged text-book of geometry for boys, lived in Alexandria, about 300 B.C., a few years after the death of Alexander and Aristotle.
Anonymous
#54. I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.
Casey Wilson
#55. As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.
Ahmed Zewail
#56. Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself.
Paul Strathern
#58. The Library of Alexandria?" I ask. "Didn't that burn down?"
Mrs Philipoulus scoffs. "Damn fool Hypatia. Athena tried to convince her to install a sprinkler system. But no-o-o, no one was going to tell the librarianatrix how to run her library.
Tera Lynn Childs
#59. If he wants to be my Peter Pan, I won't think twice about running away to Neverland or anywhere with him, just as long as it's far away from here.
Alexandria Bishop
#61. I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics," Darger said. "She is, in either case, ravishing.
Michael Swanwick
#63. Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.
Clement Of Alexandria
#65. I was gonna be super pissed in the afterlife if I died a virgin in this crap hole.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#67. This distinctness of things argues not a spontaneous generation but a prevenient Cause; and from that Cause we can apprehend
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#68. Revenge is never pretty and often leaves you empty.
Alexandria "Dria" McAndrews
C.J. Ellisson
#69. The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.
Gillian Bradshaw
#70. Words make more revolutions than swords. Words cut deeper than knives. Words cut more cleanly, and leave the victim alive.
Alexandria Constantinova Szeman
#71. Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'
Clement Of Alexandria
#72. Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.
Clement Of Alexandria
#73. But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
Clement Of Alexandria
#74. It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.
Clement Of Alexandria
#75. Heracles is worshipped as a god by the Greeks because he fought with humans equal to himself and killed wild beasts by guile. But what was that compared to what was done by the Word, who banished sicknesses and demons and death itself from human beings?
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#76. So purity of soul is sufficient of itself to reflect God, as the Lord also says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#77. Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#78. I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.
Ralph Stanley
#79. (2) In regard to the making of the universe and the creation of all things there have been various opinions, and each person has propounded the theory that suited his own taste. For instance, some say that all things are self-originated and,
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#80. We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.
Clement Of Alexandria
#81. I was once again, Miss Alexandria Charles Montague Collins, the flawless proper lady, pretentious to the help, and people pleaser - the well-bred Southern belle who wore the mask of perfection because no one wanted to see the truth underneath.
Aleatha Romig
#82. For by nature human beings are afraid of death and of the dissolution of the body. But this is most amazing, that one who has put on the faith of the cross scorns even things according to nature, and is not afraid of death because of Christ.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#83. I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
Maajid Nawaz
#84. Until well into the evening, when the vermillion sun plunged precipitously into the harbor, Alexandria remained a swirl of reds and yellows, a swelling kaleidoscope of music, chaos, and color.
Stacy Schiff
#85. The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.
Clement Of Alexandria
#86. Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#87. I have never seen a
man break the way he did. And he broke. Set half the damn Covenant on fire. If his brother hadn't
showed up when he had, I'm positive that he would've stayed in the burning building. Is that what you
wanted to know? Did it make you feel better, Alexandria?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#88. It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.
Clement Of Alexandria
#90. That savage, he thought. Don't think you can push me aside so easily.
Shark attack! Look out, cara, he is swimming toward you. Aidan deliberately lightened the mood between Alexandria and himself.
Christine Feehan
#91. It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.
Clement Of Alexandria
#92. At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.
Edward Gibbon
#93. For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#95. For, in a word, if one thinks himself made beautiful by gold, he is inferior to gold; and he that is inferior to gold is not lord of it.
Clement Of Alexandria
#96. Love is impatient; love is cruel. It gets your hopes up then tears them down expecting you to be ok; able to cope without that second part of you that belongs to one unique person.
Alexandria Rhodes
#97. Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.
Syncletica Of Alexandria
#98. We work better with authoritative, empathic leaders, and empathic teachers like ourselves, that fit our morals, values, ethics, and principles.
Alexandria Ruffian
#99. I won't be mad at you because you gave me something no one else has: the ability to live even when I thought I was dead.
Alexandria Hampton
#100. In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who considered her a pagan. The leader of the monks, Cyril, was canonized a saint.
James A. Haught
