Mediterranean Quotes
74 quotes by 72 authors
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
— Ted Allen
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Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
— Horatio Nelson
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
— Benito Mussolini
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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
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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
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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
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
— Thucydides
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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
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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
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If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
— Richard Attenborough
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering high beams…
— Chris Hadfield
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A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
— Zinedine Zidane
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Mediterranean Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 74 Mediterranean Quotes, led by these top contributors: