quotes about egypt

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. ~Lowell



I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938



Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess



If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. ~David Belasco If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ~Tom Stoppard



Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. ~Peter Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions, 1900



It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern



If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No." ~Margaret "Stevie" Smith



As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race



The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain



While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ~Samuel Johnson



For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. ~Maya Angelou



Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane



Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ~Aaron Howard



Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino



I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~A.C. Van Cherub



Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb



I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. ~William Allen White



Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. ~E.B. White



When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran