Farouk I Quotes

The Egyptian flood is upon us. Pharaoh had just as much business to pursue the Israelites as we have to meddle in Egypt …. However, our policy must now be determined by the effect which the triumph of the Madhi would have on our Mohammedan subjects.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

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.

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

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.

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

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

Being a cabinet minister is not like running a company. A country is not a company.

Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear ;, While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

The responsibility of a public official is to make the country work!

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.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

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

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.

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.

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

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

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.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

There is no school that teaches you how to run a state. You make mistakes, but you learn on the job.

Death to Pharaoh!

A country is not a business and a government should stand for much more than economic efficiency.