Egyptians Quotes

“ليس الزواج عندنا ازدواجا بين قلب وقلب أو إتحادا بين عقل وعقل بل مزاوجة بين مجموعتين من الظروف”
― زكي نجيب محمود, أيام في أمريكا

“Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back. I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt. If you forgive me I shall rejoice; if you are angry, I shall bear it; I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.”
― Johannes Kepler, Harmonies of the World

“الشعب المصري يعشق البطل الديكتاتور ويحس بالأمان عندما يخضع للإستبداد”
― علاء الأسواني, جمهورية كأن

“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to do the exact same thing. It is known that the scent of fresh rosemary increases memory, but this cure for memory loss is not divulged by doctors to help the elderly. I also know that the most effective use of the blue lotus flower is not from its dilution with wine or tea – but from its scent. To really maximize the positive effects of the blue lily (or the pink lotus), it must be sniffed within minutes of plucking. This is why it is frequently shown being sniffed by my ancient ancestors on the walls of temples and on papyrus. Even countries across the Orient share the same imagery. The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory - and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When the Franks and Turks weren't fighting over Egypt, the only thing they seemed to agree on was that the Egyptians couldn't govern it themselves. God forbid. It's not as though the Egyptians were the inheritors of a great civilization whose mighty monuments still littered the land. Oh, no. They were peasants, superstitious fools who ate too many beans”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“شعبنا لا يثور أبدا وإذا ثار فسرعان ما يتخلى عن الثورة ، شعبنا ليس على استعداد لدفع ثمن الحرية”
― علاء الأسواني, جمهورية كأن

“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews attained to it. Zoroaster and his earliest followers were monotheists, dualism being a later development of the Persian theology. The adoption of monotheism by the Jews, which occurred only at a very late period in their history, was not, however, the result of a divine revelation, or even of an intellectual superiority, for the Jews were immeasurably inferior intellectually to the Greeks and Romans, to the Hindus and Egyptians, and to the Assyrians and Babylonians, who are supposed to have retained a belief in polytheism. This monotheism of the Jews has chiefly the result of a religious intolerance never before equaled and never since surpassed, except in the history of Christianity and Mohammedanism, the daughters of Judaism. Jehovistic priests and kings tolerated no rivals of their god and made death the penalty for disloyalty to him. The Jewish nation became monotheistic for the same reason that Spain, in the clutches of the Inquisition, became entirely Christian.”
― John E. Remsburg, The Christ

“أَيَشتَكي الفَقرَ غادينا وَرائِحُنا وَنَحنُ نَمشي عَلى أَرضٍ مِنَ الذَهَبِ”
― حافظ إبراهيم

“وشعب يفرُّ من الصالحاتِ فرارَ السَّليم من الأجرب”
― حافظ إبراهيم

“كل شئ يبالغ فيه في مصر،فالخبر البسيط العادي يصبح خبرا هائلا ، متداولا على كل لسان ، منسوبا إلى المصادر العليمة ببواطن الأمور بعد صدوره ببضع ساعات ، وغالبا ما ينتشر الخبر المختلق انتشار الريح ، ويصبح خبرا صحيحا سليما ، من العسير تكذيبه ، أو تشكيك الناس فيه ، فنحن شعب واسع الخيال ، يحب القيل والقال”
― عبد الحميد جودة السحار, في الوظيفة

“I bet if I were pharaoh, I’d have had my tomb planned and designed by the time I was ten. I've always wanted to be five steps ahead of where I am. And my mind does it right now: I picture the king on his deathbed, and Ay delivers the awful news to me, but I'm the best embalmer in Thebes thanks to Anubis, so I'm alone in a dark room, and I cut open his soft chest, and take out a heart filled with dreams and love and sadness.”
― Leah Rooper, Jane Unwrapped

“نحن شعب واحد في أحزاننا ، فلماذا لا نكون شعب واحد في أفراحنا”
― علي أمين, دعاء

“Through the various branches of your tree, you are connected to the entirety of human history. When we talk about the ancient Egyptians building the pyramids, we're not talking about a bunch of exotic strangers, we're talking about our great-great-many-times-great grandparents!”
― Laurence Overmire, Digging for Ancestral Gold: The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest

“ماذا دَها قِبطِيَّ مِصرَ فَصَدَّهُ
عَن وُدِّ مُسلِمِها وَماذا يَنقِمُ
وَعَلامَ يَخشى المُسلِمينَ وَكَيدَهُم
وَالمُسلِمونَ عَنِ المَكايِدِ نُوَّمُ
قَد ضَمَّنا أَلَمُ الحَياةِ وَكُلُّنا
يَشكو فَنَحنُ عَلى السَواءِ وَأَنتُمُ”
― حافظ إبراهيم

“She wants me. And I am terrified, knowing how much I want her back.”
― Leah Rooper, Jane Unwrapped

“He stares blankly, then leaves the room like a ghost—never truly here. I gaze at the doorway. I do not know if he means for me to follow him. It’s a choice then.
And I realize that this is no choice at all, but rather a sentence. By love or by evil, somehow I am bound to Tutankhamen. It’s not a choice any more if I will follow him, but a question of what I will do when I catch him.”
― Kate Rooper, Jane Unwrapped

“أُمَّةً قَد فَتَّ في ساعِدِها بُغضُها الأَهلَ وَحُبُّ الغُرَبا
تَعشَقُ الأَلقابَ في غَيرِ العُلا وَتُفَدّي بِالنُفوسِ الرُتَبا
وَهيَ وَالأَحداثُ تَستَهدِفُها تَعشَقُ اللَهوَ وَتَهوى الطَرَبا”
― حافظ إبراهيم

“عارٌ على ابن النيل سبّاق الورى مهما تقلبَ دهرهُ أن يُسْبقا”
― حافظ إبراهيم

“لقد مكثنا سنوات نهدم الإنسان المصري بحجة بناء الدولة المصرية، فإذا بنا نهدم مصر كلها !
جردنا الإنسان المصري من الحرية بدعوى أننا سنجئ لمصر بحريتها ففقدت مصر حريتها، أخرسنا الشعب لتسمع الدنيا صوت حكومة مصر فمات صوتها فوق الشفاة المكممة”
― مصطفى أمين, 100 فكرة وفكرة

“كنا نتحدث عن أصالة الشعب المصري.
تظنه نائماً وهو يحلم بالخلاص، تتوهم أنه استسلم وهو يستعد للإنقضاض على الظالمين، تتصوره يسبح بحمد الطغاة وهو يلعنهم ويلعن الطغيان!
يسكت فتعتقد أنه أصيب بالخرس، ويستمر ساكتاً سنوات، وفجأة يزأر فيهتز لهذا الزئير! .. يسكن مده طويلة فتعتقد أنه مات، وفجأة يتحرك ويثب وينطلق ويحقق المعجزات!
عظمة هذا لشعب تجئ في لحظة صدق.
قد يختزن آلامه وأحزانه ومتاعبه وعواطفه سنوات طويلة، ثم ينطلق في لحظة لا يتوقعها أذكى الخبراء بنفسية الشعوب!”
― مصطفى أمين, أفكار ممنوعة

“لا يمكن الحكم على هذا الشعب من الظاهر، مظاهره خداعة: يضحك وقلبه يبكي، ينكت وروحه تنزف دماً، يحني رأسه وهو يكز على أسنانه، يعود إلى الخلف وهو يستعد للإنطلاق إلى الأمام !”
― مصطفى أمين, أفكار ممنوعة

“الذين يتوهمون أن الشعب المصري لا يستحق الحرية لأنه فقير، لا يعرفون أن فقرنا سببه الأكبر أننا حُرمنا من الديموقراطية والحرية أجيالاً طويلة !”
― مصطفى أمين, أفكار ممنوعة

“Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa 6 mpaka 12 au maili 3.7 mpaka 7.5, pamoja na eneo la jumla la kilometa za mraba 365 au maili za mraba 141. Jimbo hili liliwahi kutawaliwa na Wamisri, Wakaanani, Waisraeli, Wasiria, Wababelonia, Wagiriki, Warumi, Waturuki, Waingereza, na Wapalestina, na limekuwa uwanja wa vita kwa karne nyingi kwa sababu za kidini na kihistoria. Ukanda wa Gaza uko chini ya Palestina. Uko chini ya serikali ya Hamas.”
― Enock Maregesi

“This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have both aesthetic and mystic significance. That the Egyptians knew of it and used it seems certain.”
― John Pile, A History of Interior Design

“The golden section was discovered by the Egyptians, and has been used in art and architecture, most commonly, during the classical ages of Egypt and Greece.”
― Steven L. Griffing, The Golden Section:An Ancient Egyptian and Grecian Proportion

“Kwa vile taifa la Israeli lilipoteza haki yake ya upendeleo, Mungu aliahidi kuliharibu kama alivyoyaharibu mataifa ya Waamori na Wamisri. Watu wa Israeli walishafika mbali sana kiasi cha Mungu kutokutegemea tena toba kutoka kwao. Kuna muda wa fursa na kuna muda ambao fursa haipo tena. Nafasi ya Israeli ya kutubu ilishafikia mwisho.

Kama alivyokuwa amepigana vita vyao kwa ajili yao katika siku za nyuma sasa Mungu alipigana nao. Pamoja na ujasiri na utaalamu wao wote wasingependelewa tena. Mambo ambayo mwanzo yaliipa Israeli nguvu katika vita yaliwageukia.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Yeast. The word comes to us through Old English, from the Indo-European root 'yes'- meaning boil, foam, bubble. It does all those things, and more. And would it not be the Egyptians, who construct the largest, most sophisticated buildings in the land, to also harness the tiniest microbe?
Of course, they know nothing of yeast. To them, it is magic.
They are called the 'bread eaters.' "Dough they knead with their feet, but clay with their hands," Herodotus wrote with derision. The Egyptians do not care. They understand their bread is from the gods, for king and peasant alike. They invent ovens to bake this new, breath-filled dough because it cannot be cooked like the flat breads they know first. They construct clay vessels to hold it. They watch it rise in the heat. They add butter and eggs and honey and coriander, and save soured dough from one batch to add to the next. They eat.
They live.”
― Christa Parrish, Stones For Bread

“Boy, how can you think it wise to truck with this culture of death?" Even at ten I knew the correct answer to that cataclysmic catechism: "Right you are, Father. Much better to stick with the life-embracing imagery of a cult that worships a bleeding corpse nailed to bits of wood."

... Egypt was not — I must repeat for Readers who still do not know it — a culture of death, for all the mummies and bottled lungs, the jackal-men and cobra-queens. The Egyptians were the inventors of immortality, the first men who saw they could live forever.”
― Arthur Phillips, The Egyptologist

“أيها الكاتب، كم تبدو وكأنك تبصر ما لا يراه أحد
الناس يأتون إلى الدنيا ويرحلون
وتبقى أنت في لفائف البردي الناطقة باسمك
يستمتع الناس بسطورك ويتولاك أبناء الأرض جميعا أبا لهم
فأنت حبيب المعبود طالما القلم ابن لك”
― أنشودة مصرية قديمة

“Through the open door he could see the swimming pool and its silent fountain, and also, in a corner of the tiled garden, a cat playing with a little bird. This ritual of extended death intrigued him. The Egyptians held the cat to be a sacred animal: of all creatures the nearest in intelligence to Man. And in the whole of Nature, only cats and men – that he could think of – derived an obvious pleasure from cruelty.”
― Robert Harris - Pompeii