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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle. -- Alfred Stieglitz
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity. -- Walter Cronkite
A labyrinth of symbols ... An invisible labyrinth of time. -- Jorge Luis Borges
From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens. -- Rachel
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
What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination -- Allen Ginsberg
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
His ancestors had been keen on pyramids. The pharaoh wasn't. Pyramids had bankrupted the country, drained it drier than ever the river did. The only curse they could afford to put on a tomb these days was 'Bugger Off'. The -- Terry Pratchett
The bhel-puri stall was a sculptured landscape with its golden pyramid of sev, the little snow mountains of mumra, hillocks of puris, and, in among their valleys, in aluminium containers, pools of green and brown and red chutneys. -- Rohinton Mistry
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. -- D.h. Lawrence
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
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. -- Pierre Loti
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
I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that? -- Sarah Parcak
Emerson, do you mean it?' 'It is only your due, my dear Peabody. Spite and selfishness alone kept me from beginning on them long ago. You deserve pyramids, and pyramids you will have! -- Elizabeth Peters
I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever. -- Mohamed Al-Fayed
Pharaoh Chephren (circa 2600 B.C., Fourth Dynasty), who built the second Giza pyramid. -- Cheikh Anta Diop
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. -- Pierre Loti
A well-constructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact, which will as easily make a pyramid as a platform. -- Lionel Shriver
If the Aztecs saw Giza, they would have called Menkaure - the Pyramid of the Moon. -- Ibrahim Ibrahim
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
triangle of my mons, -- Cari Silverwood
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
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
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
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
This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones ... And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man. -- Ramon Magsaysay
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
In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, "This is land," and point, and "This is sky," and point, but the eyes can't discover the dividing line. -- Helen Oyeyemi
It's true, I rarely leave my apartment, and whenever I do, I rarely leave the pyramid. The pyramid has filtered air so I haven't been breathing in that gold crap like everyone else. See, sometimes staying inside and playing video games can save your life. -- Edward Mullen
I gaze at you (Great Pyramid of Giza), and I see time! -- Ibrahim Ibrahim
A ladder's a flag pole with delusions of grandeur. -- Peter Clines
Letter 84
An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars.
A breaching whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea.
My photographs are a ladder to my dreams.
These letters are ladders to you. -- Gregory Colbert
Also, I am not sure what you are teaching in your classroom, but Seb came home the other week talking about a healthy eating pyramid. I had to explain to him that pyramids are made of stone and therefore not edible, so I would appreciate your not filling his head with these fanciful notions. -- David Thorne
The least we can say about the Great Pyramid of Giza is that it certainly was an observatory of the heavens. -- Ibrahim Ibrahim
background. 5. Rubin's vase -- Freda Mcmanus
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid. -- Alice Dunbar Nelson
What do the hieroglyphs tell us of what it was like to live under the lash, building the pyramids? Do we talk of that? Do we? No, we talk of the magnificence and majesty of the Egyptians. Of the Romans. Of Saint Petersburg, and nothing of the bones of the hundred thousand slaves that it is built on. -- Richard Flanagan
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
Was it designed and constructed by the Egyptians, Satan, gods or aliens, and for what purpose? -- Robert Jean Redfern
The boy stood up shakily, and looked once more at the Pyramids. They seemed to laugh at him, and he laughed back, his heart bursting with joy. Because now he knew where his treasure was. -- Paulo Coelho
The five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase -- Tom Clancy
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. -- Lord Byron
While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believe
that if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well in
my life. -- Vann Chow
Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza. -- Michael Tsarion
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs. -- Kendrick Lamar
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. -- Gene Roddenberry
You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of your own life. -- Bryant Mcgill
Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. -- Le Corbusier
That like I best that flies beyond my reach.
Set me to scale the high pyramids
And thereon set the diadem of France;
I'll either rend it with my nails to nought,
Or mount the top with my aspiring wings,
Although my downfall be the deepest hell. -- Christopher Marlowe
I don't know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert just to see the Pyramids," said the merchant. "They're just a pile of stones. You could build one in your backyard. -- Paulo Coelho
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
A circus of stars,
your dreams a trapeze, faces
lift like mirrored moons. -- Imtiaz Dharker
A plane of cheekbone, -- Margaret Atwood
Sphinxes without secrets. -- Oscar Wilde
It's foolish to trump up stories about how primitive humans built pyramids, stone henge or other ancient giant structures. The only logical explanation is ... those relics ain't built by human kind. It is easier to admit this pity explanation than to justify otherwise. -- Toba Beta
A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark. -- Louis Macneice
The tomb of ancient Egyptian Great Chief of the Oryx, Baqet III (2500 B.C.) -- Jessie Perault
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end? -- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes. -- Rachel
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. -- D.h. Lawrence
The reason why the Great Pyramid of Giza has Earth's circumference figure embedded in it is not because ancient Egyptians knew that number, but because they were observing the horizon and the lunar movement. -- Ibrahim Ibrahim
It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath. -- Steven M. Greer
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ... -- Leslie Ford
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit - reptiles and eagles. -- Jean Le Rond D'alembert
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher. -- Amelia B. Edwards
Palace of Crystal -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
as well balanced as an upturned pyramid. -- Terry Pratchett
Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains,
and the maker of canyons and mountains!
All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars. -- Kabir
He would come to school balancing his night's dreams like an acrobat bearing a human pyramid on his shoulders. -- Howard Jacobson
Neat little rectangular arrangements of suffering. His -- Jessica D. Lovett
Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus -- Cassandra Clare
An inverted five-pointed star. The humans don't understand it correctly. They draw a goat's head into it with the horns at the top. They like to see the devil everywhere, except in the mirror and on TV. -- Victor Pelevin
Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt. -- Dean Koontz
The stars are the apexes of what triangles! -- Henry David Thoreau
It looks like a parallelogram fucking an isosceles triangle, I said. -- Leah Raeder
The giant tree starts out as the tiniest shoot, the tallest tower starts out as a single brick, the longest journey starts with the first step. -- Lao-Tzu
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree. -- Jeremy Narby
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense
Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry -- Tamora Pierce
A labyrinth is an ancient device that compresses a journey into a small space, -- Rebecca Solnit
with thick stone walls and high, slitted -- Diana Gabaldon
That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It was arranged like a drunk triangle. None of the walls were straight. Each had some odd angle, and most had two. Tables and benches lined each section, and a long one stretched down the middle. -- Rob Howell
THE SECRET GARDEN -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. -- Karl Marx
The palace of the Saggese family, once the great landowner of those parts. An archway -- Malcolm Gladwell
Beyond the window was the parking lot and beyond that the desert, and beyond that the sky, mostly void, partially stars. Layered -- Joseph Fink
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
The Looming Tower. -- Jeremy Scahill
Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd. -- Diablo Cody
Prism! Where is that baby? -- Oscar Wilde
Bee there Orr Bee A Rectangular Thyng -- Terry Pratchett
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration - some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers. -- Carl Sagan
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue.
Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you. -- Young Jeezy
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. -- Jascha Heifetz
Skyscraper National Park -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
What mazes there are in this world. -- Anthony Doerr
