Lord Byron Quotes

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.

The Egyptians had no Stone age, and were born civilized.

Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.

If, like me, you're interested in history, Egypt is a place of wonders. It's the land of many civilisations, including Greek, Roman, Christian, and Muslim.

President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy.

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.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

I want to travel the world - like Egypt. I love history. That's my favorite subject at school. From the building of the pyramids to... King Tut. Their way of working without technology. I find all that fascinating.

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.

Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.

I was always obsessed with ancient Egypt, but any time you go back to wouldn't be as good for women as now - so it might be a quick visit.

I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?

Of all the places I've visited in my life, Egypt has been the most fascinating. I've explored almost the whole country: Cairo and the Pyramids, Alexandria, the temples of Luxor and Karnak, the Valleys of the Kings and the Queens and the Nobles.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.

I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.