Italian Quotes

• There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Identity

• You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.

  

  Whitney M. Young
  • Power
  • Police
  • New York

• 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
  • Done
  • American
  • Culture

• I want to win the Italian league. That's why I said no to Manchester United.

  

  Gabriel Batistuta
  • Want
  • Win
  • League

• When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan.' I loved it. The Italians would invite me in for dinner - it was an Italian neighborhood mostly. Oh, I loved it.

  

  John Garfield
  • Italian

• I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

  

  Frank Bruno
  • Italian

• There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • America
  • History
  • Food

• 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
  • People
  • Italian

• I look Italian, but I act Irish.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Irish
  • Italian

• I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Serious
  • Irish
  • Italian

• I learned to cook from my mom. Most of what I ate growing up was Italian cooking.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Mom
  • Cooking
  • Italian

• 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
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Rock

• 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
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Italian

• 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
  • Country
  • House
  • Party

• Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Fighting
  • President
  • African

• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Jewish

• Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • People
  • Food
  • Italian

• Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Up
  • Music
  • Money

• The Caprese salad perfectly represents the colors of the Italian flag. While I am not so sure that the colors of the flag stem from the cuisine, there is no denying that those colors do evoke a typical Italian plate.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Italian

• I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

  

  Meta Golding
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • French

• Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Kind
  • Problem

• Alex Robichek had survived their Italian exile; that Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi were safe in Sacramento.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Italian
  • Safe
  • Survived

• My style in Italian is very old-style.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Style
  • Italian

• I am a transporter of the Italian culture - culinary culture, family culture - because I love it, I thrive in it, and I think it's the right way.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Italian

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