Caroline Polachek Quotes

I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.

I want to travel the world - like Egypt. I love history. That's my favorite subject at school. From the building of the pyramids to... King Tut. Their way of working without technology. I find all that fascinating.

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.

I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.

I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.

I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

The Egyptians had no Stone age, and were born civilized.

One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?

If, like me, you're interested in history, Egypt is a place of wonders. It's the land of many civilisations, including Greek, Roman, Christian, and Muslim.

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I like mythology - anything historical.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.