Our tents are not the columned halls of Egypt, but our children play happily before them.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Ten Commandments (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:01:44.061 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Yes. She was beautiful as a jewel.
- A jewel has brilliant fire, but gives no warmth.
- Our hands are not so soft, but they can serve. Our bodies not so white, but they are strong.
- Our lips are not perfumed, but they speak the truth.
- Love is not an art to us. It's life to us.
- We are not dressed in gold and fine linen. Strength and honor are our clothing.
- Our tents are not the columned halls of Egypt, but our children play happily before them.
- We can offer you little, but we offer all we have.
- I have not little, Sephora. I have nothing.
- Nothing from some is more than gold from others.
- You would fill the emptiness of my heart?
- I could never fill all of it, Moses. But I shall not be jealous of a memory.
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