Mediterranean Sea Quotes:

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

- Mercedes McCambridge

source: Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

topic: Sea, Midnight, Naked, Mediterranean Sea

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

topic: Winter, Thinking, Rocks, Mediterranean Sea

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

topic: Thinking, Islands, Vegetables, Mediterranean Sea, Fresh Fish

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; its like the end of the world.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Rain, Years, Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Rainfall

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

source: Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

topic: Sea, Two, Sailing, Mediterranean Sea, Golgotha

We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Refugee Crisis, Years, Europe, Nobody Cares, Mediterranean Sea

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

topic: Science, Sea, Goggles, Mediterranean Sea

It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.255

topic: Ocean, Men, Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Creeks

Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

- Yasser Arafat

topic: War, Sea, Land, Mediterranean Sea, Uprooting

Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

- Ehud Olmert

topic: Believe, Reality, Destiny, Mediterranean Sea, Birth Rate