Quotes About The Great Pyramids

#1. If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

Lindsey Graham

#2. Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.

Ameen Rihani

#4. We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

Charles Darwin

#5. Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John Lothrop Motley

#6. The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years."
"Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone.

Rick Riordan

#7. The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!

Denis Waitley

#8. The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

David Berg

#9. To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.

Herbert Butterfield

#11. I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the pyramids built.

Alan Bradley

#12. even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton.

Dan Simmons

#13. Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

Michael Tsarion

#14. We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.

M T Anderson

#15. Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

Ornette Coleman

#16. Human beings make terrible gods.

Nnedi Okorafor

#17. Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a man's tranquility, cleanse his hear of evil, and lead him to the path of truth

Anita Amirrezvani

#18. You aren't being sent on a mission that you don't have the power to accomplish. You have to find that power inside you somewhere, and you have to refine it. You were made for this purpose...

Cynthia Hand

#19. Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

Dan Brown

#20. I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to the times of the pyramids or the Roman days? I think there are so many great historic times until now that I would like to get a little peek of those periods, rather than just 1984. Why limit yourself?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#21. I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter.

Muriel Rukeyser

#22. I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.

Michael Redhill

#23. I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

Justin Zackham

#24. I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Fonda

#25. To love is to open the window of our heart for all the beauty of the world to come in and dance with joy within our soul.

Debasish Mridha

#26. A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

Lester Bangs

#27. The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

Karl Pilkington

#28. I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

Rachel