Pyramids Quotes

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

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

What we would dearly like to do is to get them down in Egypt near the pyramids. - Alan Noble

We'll look at some pyramids and check out some head. - ZZ Top

We have tombs with unique architectural style and very important scenes of daily life. We've also opened a lot of kings' pyramids, but today we are opening those of queens. Queens have mystery. - Zahi Hawas

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. - Anne Lamott

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. - Caleb Cushing

Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. - Edward Young

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. - James H. Breasted