Quotes by Pyramids One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation. J. M. Coetzee citiespyramidsnight How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life. J. Richard Clarke pyramidsopportunityjoy Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed. James Chiles egyptgreedpyramids 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 pyramidsmemoriesfacts Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. James Gates Percival memorial-daygreenpyramids 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 Henry Breasted childhoodvisionpyramids We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. J. K. Rowling george-weasleymumpyramids Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. James Hunter top-downpyramidswar Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. James Turrell technologypyramidswriting In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws. Jeffrey Eugenides girlpyramidssimple The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids. Henry David Thoreau pyramidsperfectiontime I described the pyramid we'd found and waited for him to jump on the bandwagon. Unfortunately he's afraid of wagons. And bands. Jennifer Rardin wagonsbandpyramids A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!! Jim Ferree gratitudepyramidspeople What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known. John Henrik Clarke pyramidsagemen What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture. John Henrik Clarke examplepyramidsculture I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off. John Henrik Clarke pyramidsmenpeople The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids, the whole inside is a burial chamber. So they were really gravesites to nobility. John Henrik Clarke egyptdifferencespyramids There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home? John Henrik Clarke egyptpyramidshome You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent. John Henrik Clarke agentspyramidslooks Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. John Lothrop Motley deedspyramidsstones«12345678910»
