Ernest Gallo quotes

“My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford”
-- Ernest Gallo

Source : "American wine giant Ernest Gallo dies", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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“My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.”
-- Ernest Gallo

Source : "ERNEST GALLO: 1909-2007 / With brother, he created world's biggest winery" by W. Blake Gray, Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. March 7, 2007.

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“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”

“I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.”

“Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

“I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine”

Source : Song: Water

“I love driving; driving along the California coastline is the best drive in the world.”

“I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.”

Source : "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

“I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.”

“The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.”