#mediterranean

A Mediterranean city is really my culture. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#culture #mediterranean #really

Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#dependent #economy #european #export #france

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#born #careful #civilization #corner #doubt

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt. ↗

— Cat Cora

#because #being #diet #eating #fantastic

The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time. ↗

— Cat Cora

#after #always #been #being #board

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#egypt #fighter #fighter pilot #flew #flying

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#israel #israeli-palestinian-conflict #jerusalem #jews #mediterranean-basin

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#across #around #child #complain #ever

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#any #coast #country #early #east

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 exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#artistic #atlantic #between #central #economic