Action Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Who that has ever visited the borders of this classic sea, has not felt at the first sight of its waters a glow of…

— Edward Forbes

A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for…

— Bettany Hughes

“The backbone of western civilization is racially Nordic, the Alpines and Mediterraneans being effective precisely to the extent in which they have been Nordicized…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Denmark's fall and winter were really cold and long, actually, but my job often takes me to paradise, so I can't complain.

— Nina Agdal

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…

— Robert Fitzgerald

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the…

— Henry Fuseli

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Egypt is a fertile valley of rich river soil, low-lying, warm, monotonous, a slow-flowing river, and beyond the limitless desert. Greece is a country…

— Edith Hamilton

In Europe, I was just a little guy... the winters in the mountains were very nasty.

— Bruno Sammartino

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

— Arthur Erickson

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

— Gore Vidal