God Told Moses

Famous quotes containing the words god, told and/or moses:

    Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora’s box. “What! all!” said the Prince. “Yes, all.” “No,” said the Prince; “curiosity must have been without.”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    Go down, Moses
    ‘Way down in Egypt land,
    Tell ole Pharaoh,
    To let my people go.
    Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)