Howard Carter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
-- Howard Carter

#Country #Congratulations #Discovery
Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.
-- Howard Carter

#Church #Let Me #Thyself
Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.
-- Howard Carter

#Sunset #Levels #Doorways
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
-- Howard Carter

#Sight #Vision #Precedent
Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
-- Howard Carter

#Doorways #Lasts #Rubbish
I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one.
-- Howard Carter

#Kings #Science #Thinking
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.
-- Howard Carter

#Years #Missing #Valleys
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.
-- Howard Carter

#Lying #Broken #Water

Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, â€˜We want it now, in our lifetime.â€™ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, theyâ€™ll say youâ€™re crazy and youâ€™re blasphemous, and theyâ€™ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, â€˜My goodness, Iâ€™ve just discovered that Iâ€™m God,â€™ theyâ€™ll laugh and say, â€˜Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Howard Carter famous quotes

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