Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandria.
Quotes about alexandria (16 Quotes)
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
We have a feeding unit, and we also have a chainsaw unit attached to us, and a chaplain. And we'll go into a community in Alexandria at the Horseshoe Baptist Church, and we'll be prepared to prepare up to 20 thousand meals a day.
A spokeswoman at St. Rita's Church in Alexandria said parishioners were told of the child's death during the morning Mass. After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss for the Torres and Rollin families, ... We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susan's homecoming with the world.
There weren't big crowds. I think those of us there were true baseball fans who supported the Dukes. They didn't have a lot of people coming outside of Alexandria. ... You had a lot of die-hard Senators fans eager to be a part of something, eager to be there as fans. It was something we could hang our hats on. If you went, you had a good time and appreciated it. But you knew what it was it was Four Mile Run Park, it wasn't RFK Stadium.
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
The storm-damaged areas will recover much quicker if the regions that are already up and running do better and benefit from revitalization, ... It's more important than ever before that the rest of the state -- Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria and the agriculture areas -- can thrive so as to lift up the rest of the state.
Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
This has been a chronic choke-point for traffic both coming out of Old Town (Alexandria) as well as coming north from Fairfax County towards the bridge.
This act of violence against worshipers on a holy day for the Christian Coptic Community in Alexandria is unacceptable. We also would ask the Egyptian government to continue its efforts to defuse the situation, including providing effective security for all places of worship, and calling upon people of all communities to refrain from further violence and incitement.
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
We had no definite answer for this, ... But I don't think that these letters have been sent from Alexandria. It is easy to imitate the stamps.
JBG has bought all our residential properties in Alexandria and have agreed to also take all our employees. They will continue to operate the properties as they have been under the Winkler Company.
There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms grin like a dog and run about through the city.
All of Winkler's commercial office projects in Alexandria, most of the remaining development land and the commercial office management and development operations of the Mark Winkler Company will be sold to Duke Realty. The residential apartment properties and the shopping center at Mark Center in Alexandria will be sold to JBG Investment Fund.
An apocryphal story from the writings of Clement of Alexandria regarding John the Apostle quoted by John H. Vandenberg, Conference Report, October 1963, p.45 - p.46 '... about John the Apostle, handed down and preserved in memory. When, on the death of t.