Quotes About Italy

Toronto has been home to me and my family for almost 5 years. I arrived here from Italy in January 2015 and immediately felt something special.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.

it is the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, that gave us the poet Ovid, who in the Metamorphoses deplored the eating of animals, and the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci, who envisioned a day when the life of an animal would be valued as highly as that of a person, and Saint Francis, who once petitioned the Holy Roman Emperor to scatter grain on fields on Christmas Day and give the crested larks a feast.

The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.

No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that he reserved only for students. The Italians forever twitch at Dante's sleeves trying to make him say he is of their politics and their way of thinking. Their way indeed! To confine it to Florence or Italy is to banish it from the sympathies of mankind. We read Paradise Lost as a poem but Dante's Comedy as a chronicle of our inner lives. Do you boys know of Isaiah 38:10

the jury was overwhelmed by the tangle of conflicting tales of Austrian spies, slave-smugglers, mysterious veiled ladies, nameless hired bravos, Italian politics, and enraged divas

In the 1500s, it was a crime to be caught kissing in Naples, Italy. The punishment? Death!

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

Piazza Navona.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

Orson Welles used to say that Italy was full of actors—fifty million of them—almost all good. He claimed the few bad ones were on the stage, or the cinema screen.

L'Italia pero' non e' un'inferno... Diciamo che e' un purgatorio insolito... Un posto capace di mandarci in bestia e in estasi nel raggio di cento metri e nel giro di dieci minuti.

In Italia lo stomaco ha una valenza metafisica. -En Italia el estómago tiene un valor metafísico-

Predete il cappuccino: dopo le dieci del mattino e' immorale (forse anche illegale). Al pomeriggio e' insolito, a meno che faccia freddo; dopo pranzo, invece, e' da americani. - Un ejemplo, el cappuccino: después de las 10 de la mañana es inmoral (quizá es ilegal). En la tarde es insólito, a menos que haga frío; después de la comida, es cosa de americanos (gringos).

Immediately after the war, a group of Jewish partisans known as the Nokmim traveled throughout Germany and Austria hunting down former members of the SS. Also known as the Avengers, this band of mercenaries paid by the government of Great Britain made northern Italy their home base.3

In Italy, you must think faster than defenders. It is a tough school.

I would love to become the national team coach. I am aware that it is a tough job, but I spent 15 years with Italy. In my opinion, I have the right experience for this role and I know the environment very well too.

The Italian one is the toughest league of all for the attackers.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

For many, the gastronomic heart of Italy is the Emilia-Romagna region. Its capital is Bologna, which is often overlooked by tourists but has a beautiful historic centre and a lively yet chilled-out atmosphere.