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A Mediterranean city is really my culture. -- Zinedine Zidane
The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white. -- Cy Twombly
We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free. -- Nigel Farage
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors. -- Todd English
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. -- Mercedes McCambridge
Is France a northern European export powerhouse, or a Mediterranean indebted and dependent economy? Yes to both. -- Francois Hollande
I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well. -- Penelope Cruz
I'm naturally a muscular gal with some curves, so eating a Mediterranean diet makes my body happy. -- Debi Mazar
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean. -- Richard Attenborough
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. -- Arthur Erickson
I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood. -- Paz Vega
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
I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. -- Hassan Nasrallah
The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive. -- Brent Weeks
I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet. -- Rachael Ray
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 case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. -- Robert Fitzgerald
Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. -- Shimon Peres
I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. -- Queen Latifah
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water. -- C. V. Raman
I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world. -- Sasha Cohen
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. -- Benito Mussolini
I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family. -- Stephen White
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles. -- Ted Allen
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator... -- Mikhail Bulgakov
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean. -- Horatio Nelson
I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life. -- Domenico Dolce
We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean. -- Gore Vidal
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. -- Thucydides
We need to push our border across the Mediterranean - hoping that Libya can find a new balance as soon as possible. -- Matteo Salvini
I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley. -- Roger McNamee
I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
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
And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world. -- Jerry Falwell
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 terrorism. -- Javier Solana
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry. -- Quentin S. Crisp
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 Henry Breasted
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 pleasures of the Mediterranean. -- Elizabeth David
I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest. -- David Ginola
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better. -- Harry Mathews
The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits and vegetables while low in sodium. It is also enriched with olive oil, high in antioxidants as well as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. -- David Perlmutter
The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end. -- Winifred Holtby
I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them. -- Alexandra Wentworth
I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them. -- Alexandra Wentworth
The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte. -- Rabih Alameddine
Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the clichÃ© of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices. -- Pedro Almodovar
We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities. -- Walid Jumblatt
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
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera. -- Alain Ducasse
All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy. -- Peter Shaffer
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It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers. -- Simon Schama
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity. -- Henri Pirenne
Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone. -- Donald Bren
We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that. -- Susan Hampshire
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
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
In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them. -- Enric Sala
You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace. -- Charles Schumer
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 blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. -- Vincent Van Gogh
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha. -- Jorge Luis Borges
There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how. -- Alain Ducasse
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. -- Henri Pirenne
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West." -- Henri Pirenne
The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World. -- Theodor Mommsen
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing riverâ??s delta, with Jerusalemâ??s answering high beams to the northeast. This 4,258 mile braid of human life, first navigated end-to-end in 2004, is visible in a single glance from space. -- Chris Hadfield
I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways. -- Jack Dee
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
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only sounds one hears are sirens. -- Michael Specter

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