Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.

Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

We want to excite the world about what's out there. But we don't want them to say, 'Oh, there are lots of sites in Egypt - let's loot.'

Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

There is no nation in the world greater, older or more honorable than the Turkish nation, nor has one been seen in the history of humanity.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity in their debt have been small States—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.

All over the world, we're finding out that, you know, whether it's Egypt or Syria or Central America, what satellites are showing is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of previously unknown settlements all over the world, and what archaeology does, it helps us to understand this common humanity that we have.

Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.

One of the places I'd like to travel to is Ibiza, off the coast of Spain.

I must say I have a personal love affair with India, with its civilisation, its culture.

In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

There, the grand lines of mountain and sea are admirable, and apart from the exotic vegetation that is here, Monte Carlo is certainly the most beautiful spot of the entire coast: the motifs there are more complete, more picturelike, and consequently easier to execute.

I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.

In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.

In Porto, it's a tourist city. It's close to the river, the ocean as well. There's a lot of history.

Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the old town has a little bit of the flavor of the old city of Rome.

The Taj Mahal can be a tourist attraction, an architectural marvel, but it can never be treated as a monument of faith. After all, there is a difference between tourism and faith.

In Malta, it's so hot, you wouldn't believe.