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Quotes About Tuscany

My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there.
~ Trudie Styler
I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.
~ Rose McGowan
I married a Florentine. We bought a house, had a family, and after a decade in our little Hollywood nest, we said, 'Let's go to Tuscany.' Tell God you can't make him laugh, but the next thing I know, my cooking show has become a hit, and they're asking for more seasons, and they want it to be in the States.
~ Debi Mazar
All I knew was that there was a wine called Chianti, which came in bottles with little baskets,
~ Laura Fraser
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
~ Charles Babbage
Dirò che, nel concetto dei toscani, chi non è un uomo libero è un uomo grullo.
~ Curzio Malaparte
If I was going to get stuck living, exercising and eating anywhere, it would have to be Italy. I've been to Sardinia and Tuscany and the food was unreal.
~ Joe Wicks
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Fresh tobacco. Black currants. God, it was so good. She kept it in her mouth for a count of ten before she swallowed. If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine. She smelled wet hay from a tumbledown field in Tuscany in the early morning, after the sky turned light, but before the sun burned off the dew.
~ Lev Grossman
My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
~ Debi Mazar
It was March in the Napa Valley, just under sixty miles north of San Francisco, and Joy Lammenais's favorite time of year. The rolling hills were a brilliant emerald green, which would fade once the weather grew warmer, and get dry and brittle in the summer heat. But for now, everything was fresh and new, and the vineyards stretched for miles across the Valley. Visitors compared it to Tuscany in Italy, and some to France
~ Danielle Steel
Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can get you a nice little villa in Tuscany, and that's close enough for me.
~ Lois Greiman
La bambina di due cittadini Canadesi Miriam e Joseph Pallorino è morta Mercoledì in un incidente stradale nella Toscana. La bambina, Angela Pallorino, aveva quattro anni . . .
~ Unknown
continuous quiver of love runs through Italian folklore. In speaking of the Sicilian tales, I mentioned the popularity of the Cupid and Psyche type found not only in Sicily but also in Tuscany and more or less everywhere.
~ Italo Calvino
One of my ambitions is to move to Tuscany. I like the idea of getting a vineyard. I love being under the sun and being casual and comfortable. That's my idea of heaven.
~ Paolo Nutini
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Oh, buying a vacation house somewhere near the water. Writing a novel. Taking a photography class. Brushing up on my sailing skills. Traveling. Spain. Egypt. Spending a summer in Tuscany." She
~ Unknown
nova e luminosa, o sol batia-te por trás dos cabelos louros e tu eras mesmo a miúda de botticelli, uma Primavera transplantada da luz suave da Toscana para aquela luz dura da Argélia. Tudo, tudo, parecia ao teu alcance. Uma vida toda à tua espera, o mundo a teus pés, se o quisesses. Ou um deserto.
~ Unknown