Quotes of Pyramid - somelinesforyou

“ They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet. ”

- Anna Louise Strong

“ Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. ”

- Edward Young

“ The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ”

- Piers Brendon

“ It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence … and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. ”

- Manitonquat

“ These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals. ”

- Ben Stein

“ There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators. ”

- Jim Ferree

“ The greatest monument of a man is not a pyramid, but a record of service built upon a foundation of solid virtues: honesty, purpose, application, study, work, and kindliness. ”

- Unknown

“ The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. ”

- David O. Selznick

“ From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ 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
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