I did more than any other king who was before me. The gods rejoiced in my time and their temples were in festival. I made the boundaries of To-mery as far as the circuit of the sun, and I caused Egypt to be the head of every land. - Thutmose I

I was a noble, beloved of his lord [Hatshepsut], who entered upon the wonderful plans of the Mistress of the Two Lands. He exalted me...appointed me to be chief of his estate...I was the superior of superiors, the chief of chiefs of works...I was in life under the Mistress of the Two Lands, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Makere [Hatshepsut], living forever... - Sennemut

Oh ye people, who shall see my monument after years, those who shall speak of that which I have made, beware [lest] ye say, 'I know not, I know not why this was made...a mountain fashioned entirely from gold...' I swear as Re loves me, as my father Amon favors me, as my nostrils are filled with satisfying life, as I wear the white crown, as I appear in the red crown, as Horus and Set have united for me their halves, as I rule this land like the son of Isis, as I have become strong lie the son of Nut, as Re sets in the evening barque, as he rises in the morning barque, as he joins his two mothers in the divine barque, as heaven abides, as that which he hath made endures, as I shall be until Eternity like an 'imperishable' as I shall down in the west like Aton, so surely these two great obelisks which My Majesty hath wrought with electrum for my father, Amon, in order that my name may abide, enduring in this temple forever and ever...are made of one block of enduring granite without seam or joining...' - Hatshepsut's Oath to Posterity at the time of the raising of her obelisks at Karnak