Italian Quotes
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
Augustus
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It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.
Gabrielle Hamilton
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I just love Italian, and I think, from being Italian, I just love Italian food.
Jessie James Decker
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I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian.
Edward Zwick
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If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.
Jeremy Scott
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I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.
John G. Diefenbaker
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I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.
Lea Michele
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My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
Meg Cabot
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When I first came here, Italian food wasn't anything I recognized. I didn't know what Italian American food was; we never ate it at home. It was the food of immigrants who came here and made use of the ingredients they had.
Lidia Bastianich
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The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.
James Fenton
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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Frank Gehry
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I cannot get over the strange conflict between my estimation of their ideas the artists of Italian Futurism most of which I find brilliant and fruitful, and my view of the their pictures he saw on the Walden exhibition in Berlin, Spring 2012, which strike me as, without a doubt, utterly mediocre.
Franz Marc
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Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.
Jose Andres
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Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.
Luca Parmitano
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I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.
Peter Shilton
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I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'
Chiara Ferragni
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I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
Jen Lancaster
