The Nile Quotes

The Nile Quote of the day

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.

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.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

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.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey." "Moses?" "Yeah, him.

I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.

The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

Sheftu, ” she whispered, “it's all over.”“Nay, little one. It's just beginning. Many things are beginning.

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

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