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Quotes About Marseille

Gothenburg is the Baltimore or Liverpool or Marseille of Sweden - plagued by the death of wharfs and other industries, and with complex segregation of the populace from southern Europe, which once brought in a labor force that suddenly found itself living in remote projects without jobs.
~ Johan Renck
avait avec nous un type de Marseille, un jeune tout creux comme un mauvais radis, la peau sur l'os et un tatouage à la paume de la main où il y avait d'écrit « Merde ». Il
~ Jean Giono
I want to play the Champions League with Marseille, but I want to know how much we are economically dependent on our project.
~ Andre Villas-Boas
So then, one thing was certain. Marseille was actually getting ready to make up a train for us....
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
I was following Marseille and looking up to my compatriot playing there, Didier Drogba, and my team was Marseille.
~ Eric Bailly
I played for four different clubs in France; I played for Marseille, which is one of the biggest clubs.
~ Dimitri Payet
My wife Steph and I sailed on Royal Princess from Barcelona to Marseille in 2017. I'm the designated family car driver and there was something quite appealing about not driving on holiday but watching the world moving outside our window.
~ Phillip Schofield
Marseille would be the only place that I'd like to play in France, but I think it's not realistic.
~ Samir Nasri
Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.
~ N'Golo Kante
Namely I'm a fan of sides like Lyon, Marseille, PSG, but there is no preference. All these clubs, as well as Bordeaux, have a great history.
~ David Trezeguet
In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.
~ Julia Child
I'm not one for souvenirs though I do have a treasured yellow pot I bought at Maison d'Empereur in Marseille.
~ Rachel Khoo
I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
~ Zinedine Zidane
Le Championnat is very balanced and of high quality. There are teams like Monaco, Marseille, and Lyon but also Lille, Nice, and Toulouse, who are strong.
~ Thomas Tuchel
In 1383, the authorities in Marseille extended the isolation period to forty days, giving the quarantine its name. (The duration was a biblical touch, inspired by the forty days and forty nights of the flood in Genesis, the forty years the Israelites spent wandering in the wilderness, and the forty days of Lent.)
~ Niall Ferguson
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
~ Zinedine Zidane
Marseille ist keine Stadt für Touristen. Es gibt dort nichts zu sehen. Seine Schönheit lässt sich nicht fotografieren. Sie teilt sich mit. Hier muss man Partei ergreifen. Sich engagieren. Dafür oder dagegen sein. Leidenschaftlich sein. Erst dann wird sichtbar, was es zu sehen gibt. Und dann ist man, wenn auch zu spät, mitten in einem Drama. Einem antiken Drama, in dem der Held der Tod ist. In Marseille muss man sogar kämpfen, um zu verlieren.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
The military put up barricades around the areas of the cities where the infections broke out. That was the way the first Coldtowns were founded. Vampirism is an American problem, the BBC declared. But the next outbreak was in Hong Kong, then Yokohama, then Marseille, then Brecht, then Liverpool. After that, it spread across Europe like wildfire.
~ Holly Black
I think Marseille is probably a place like Liverpool, very vibrant and very tough.
~ Zinedine Zidane
There was already a shop selling fabrics there; another sold mangoes and lentils and yams. There was a café- no alcohol, but mint tea, and glass-water pipes of kif - that fragrant blend of tobacco and marijuana so common in Morocco. There was a market every week, selling strange and exotic fruit and vegetables brought in from the docks at Marseille, and a little bakery, selling flatbread and pancakes and sweet milk rolls and honey pastries and almond briouats .
~ Joanne Harris
When I came here I hoped it would be possible to make some connection with art lovers here, but up to the present I haven't made the least progress in people's affection. And Marseilles? I don't know, but that may very well be nothing but an illusion. In any case I have quite given up gambling much on it. Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for dinner or coffee. And it has been like that from the beginning.
~ Vincent Van Gogh