Quotes About Italian

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Shortly thereafter in 756 Pepin also bestowed on the pope a special "Donation," which gave the pope control of Italian territories won by Pepin from the Lombards and also committed his successors to act as protectors of the papacy.

The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.

The English were fascinated with the Italian people and their amazing Epicurean culture. Italian poetry, painting, pornography, music, drama, fashion, wine, women, cheese, anything Italiano was a premium commodity in London during Shakespeare's day.

men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

SPQR is still plastered over the city of Rome, on everything from manhole covers to rubbish bins. It can be traced back to the lifetime of Cicero, making it one of the most enduring acronyms in history. It has predictably prompted parody. 'Sono Pazzi Questi Romani' is an Italian favourite: 'These Romans are mad'.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Bella, bella, Isabella. Dat is een Taliaans liedje, weet je. Ach, natuurlijk weet je dat. Tenminste, als je Taliaanse bent, mooie Isabella. - Andrea

march toward Italian unification. The two stories were intertwined, for Napoleon III had for several years used French troops to defend the pope, who was determined to retain temporal power in Rome, the last remaining vestige of the once-mighty Papal States.

En bon Italien, Guccio pensa que la chose serait plaisante de séduire à la fois et la fille et la mère.

I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.

You don't look Italian," I tell him. "Half." "Which half?" He thinks for a moment, and I see a ghost of a smile appear on his face. "The pigheaded side." "I thought you said you were only half Italian?" He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he's regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

There are always jobs I have to learn because all good Italian girls know how to do them and one day I'll need them to look after my chauvinistic husband.

As we Italians say, the husband is like the government at Rome, all pomp; the wife is like the mafia, all power.

There is an old Italian saying: "Il lavoro nobilita I'uomo, e lo rende simile alle bestie"; or, "Work gives man nobility, and turns him into an animal.

The man picked her up in Vernazza, a picturesque village perched along the rugged coastline of the Italian Riviera.

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I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.