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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. -- Caleb Cushing
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
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
You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent. -- John Henrik Clarke
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. -- James Henry Breasted
Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry. -- Kyle Abraham
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself. -- Henry David Thoreau
Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better. -- Edouard Boubat
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet. -- Anna Louise Strong
What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known. -- John Henrik Clarke
What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture. -- John Henrik Clarke
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world. -- Zahi Hawass
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -- Edward Young
No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future. -- Brandon Boyd
Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly! -- Samuel Johnson
When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people. -- Henry Rollins
The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids, the whole inside is a burial chamber. So they were really gravesites to nobility. -- John Henrik Clarke
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. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her. -- Rebecca West
There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home? -- John Henrik Clarke
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
Once I saw Desjardins' house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue des Pyramids. "Pyramids Road?" Sadie said. "Obvious, much?" "Maybe he couldn't find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street," I suggested. -- Rick Riordan
I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. -- Mitch Hedberg
Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. -- Frank Chodorov
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. -- Caldwell Esselstyn
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. -- James Gates Percival
When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top. -- Donald Trump
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. -- Henry Ward Beecher
When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids. -- Kanye West
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves. -- John Sterling
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. -- Manitonquat
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings. -- Rod Coronado
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? -- Washington Irving
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. -- Henry David Thoreau
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. -- Tracy Kidder
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. -- James A. Michener
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. -- Werner Herzog
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world. -- F. Sionil Jose
The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude. -- Henry Petroski
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I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids. -- Mohamed Al-Fayed
Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games. -- Richard Rohr
I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships? -- Elena Satine
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
Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures. -- Graham Hancock
I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru. -- Jasmine Guinness
You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually able to see settlements and tombs - and even things like buried pyramids - that you might not otherwise be able to see. -- Sarah Parcak
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. -- Anne Lamott
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. -- Karl Pilkington
When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows us to see hidden temples and tombs and pyramids and even entire settlements. -- Sarah Parcak
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. -- Jean-Luc Bilodeau
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. -- Gilbert Gottfried
Free pyramids! Buy one, get one half buried. -- Jarod Kintz
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs. -- Kendrick Lamar
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. -- Stefan Molyneux
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs -- Kendrick Lamar
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. -- D. H. Lawrence
Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) -- Aleister Crowley
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. -- Gene Roddenberry
Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus -- Cassandra Clare
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. -- Ayn Rand
The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe. -- Barack Obama
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids. -- Henry David Thoreau
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man. -- Rick Riordan
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. -- James Turrell
Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want. -- Shahla Khan
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. -- William McChesney Martin
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids? -- Seth Shostak
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
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. -- David O. Selznick
A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!! -- Jim Ferree
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
There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now. -- Daniel Handler
When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put to work constructing my pyramids of thought." -- Jarod Kintz
Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed. -- James Chiles
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own. -- Michel de Montaigne
I wouldnt mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
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
Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids.. and archaeological research has showed us this.. had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god. -- Bill Viola

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