#amid

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#government #hope #laying #may #outlast

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#confronted #contemporaries #desert #go #him

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#amid #been #conflicting #course #cruelty

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution. ↗

— George Murray

#around #aside #been #city #crap

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#approaches #been #between #building #complex

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#amid #country #deterrence #difficult #geographically

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#amid #contending #counsel #doubted #forward

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#analogous #bank #british #cease-fire #end

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#disappear #even #homeland #longing #might