Valley of the Kings Quotes

What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested. “That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.

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.

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

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.

Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

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

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.

Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.

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

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new Cambyses thundering in their ear ;, While the dark shades of forty ages stood Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood.

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

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.

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II