Mediterranean Quotes

74 quotes by 72 authors

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles. — Ted Allen
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. — Horatio Nelson
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. — Benito Mussolini
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the… — Lawrence Durrell
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's… — Vincent Van Gogh
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it… — Charlie Munger
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. — Thucydides
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely… — Vladimir Belousov
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back,… — D. H. Lawrence
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean. — Richard Attenborough
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one… — Robert Fitzgerald
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite… — Elizabeth David
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek… — Tom Standage
We all know what we mean by fighting terrorism. In reality, there is total cooperation between the countries north and south of the Mediterranean against… — Javier Solana
Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has… — Sandra Boynton
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the openingÂ of the north-flowing riverâ€™s delta, with Jerusalemâ€™s answering high beams… — Chris Hadfield
A Mediterranean city is really my culture. — Zinedine Zidane
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the… — Christopher Dawson
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is… — Henri Desgrange

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