Quotes About Italy

As an Internet celebrity Nutritionist, its wonderful to be sitting in a café in Northern Italy and have a total stranger come up and thank me for me work. But I must say that it certainly keeps me personally walking the walk that I talk.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

How much would Italy give to be in our position and be able to declare a quarantine before having thousands of cases? We are facing a pandemic with an incredible virility that has probably never been seen before.

I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and the next - obsessed, I am sorry to admit, with the bicycles. Italy, after all, was a place where thousands of middle-aged men felt perfectly comfortable spending many hours a week in brightly colored spandex.

Europe advises, sometimes threatens, and tells us, 'You should make a budget of 10 billion euros in taxes.' Are they joking? The last thing that Italy needs is taxes.

I've slept through a mild earthquake in Italy. And also a very tight hockey game where people were screaming their heads off.

Meg and I dreamed ... a foolish dream that we might flee to Italy, buy a small villa in the country. I would be an eccentric recluse, and she wouldnpreform on the stage. We might yet have made a life...

Come mai l'Italia, che grazie agli italiani d'un tempo si meritò il nome di 'giardino d'Europa', sta facendo scempio di se stessa? Quello che sta accadendo è un'involuzione culturale passeggera o una profonda mutazione antropologica? Siamo accecati solo davanti al paesaggio, o anche alla tutela del patrimonio culturale, alle esigenze della scuola, dell'università, della ricerca, dell'arte e della scienza, della musica, insomma della cultura?

I cittadini sono gli eredi e i proprietari del patrimonio culturale, tanto nel suo valore monetario che nel suo valore simbolico e metaforico, come incarnazione della comunità di vita e della sua memoria storica, come segno di appartenenza, come figura della cittadinanza e dell'identità del Paese. È in questo senso che il patrimonio culturale, sulla scia di una storia plurisecolare, ha assunto, in Italia prima che altrove, una notevolissima funzione civile. Può averla ancora.

As there can be no peace among individual men where there is no law, so there can be no peace among states who are subject to no law. Treaties are futile; our holy religion itself fails to secure peace. The curse of Italy—it may be of the world—is that cities and states acknowledge no law superior to themselves. For only where law is, there is peace.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

When I asked [her maternal grandmother that lived to the age of 103] what she remembered about the First and Second World Wars, she told me the following: "Germans are very correct. The Italians always look for a piano and want to make a party. But when the Russians come, everyone runs away because they rape all the women, young and old alike.

The most famous ice cream shop in Italy, and now the oldest continuously operated café in the world, was Florian in Piazza San Marco in Venice. It was opened in 1720.

What you hear from other Italians is that Naples isn't even Italy. "But that's a very Italian attitude to start with, a not-quite nation of city-states for whom the next village over will always be the worst place on earth.

Jeavon's thick dark hair, with its ridges of corkscrew curls, had now turned quite white, the Charlie Chaplin moustache remaining black. This combination of tones for some reason gave him an oddly Italian appearance, enhanced by blue overalls, obscurely suggesting a railway porter at a station in Italy.

Pyrrhus invaded Italy at the start of the campaigning season in 280 BC. In two brutal and bloody battles he successfully defeated the Romans. The Greek king, though, having seen so many of his soldiers slaughtered in achieving this success, was said to have remarked, 'With another victory like this, we will be finished!' (Hence our modern phrase 'pyrrhic victory'.)

Quando assunse l'incarico di primo ministro in uno dei principali Stati europei, governato da oltre cinquant'anni con un regime parlamentare, Mussolini aveva 39 anni. Non solo era il più giovane primo ministro della storia d'Italia, ma era deputato appena da un anno e non aveva mai avuto altra esperienza di governo.

Alla vigilia della "marcia su Roma", durante un convegno del Pnf tenuto a Napoli (24 ottobre 1922), il duce proclamò che il fascismo rispettava la monarchia e l'esercito, riconosceva il valore della religione cattolica, intendeva attuare una politica liberista favorevole al capitale privato e restaurare l'ordine e la disciplina nel paese.

This is the Italy I dreamed of, saints, snakes, gypsies, cutthroats in a baroque tutu of religion and sin.