Egypt

Famous quotes containing the word egypt:

    Go down, Moses
    ‘Way down in Egypt land,
    Tell ole Pharaoh,
    To let my people go.
    Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)

    The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 26:8.

    Hieratic, slim and fair,
    the tracery written here,
    proclaims what’s left unsaid
    in Egypt of her dead.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)