Italian Quotes:

Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.

topic: Italian, Central Park, Perfect

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

topic: Thinking, Italian, Government

I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

topic: Attitude, Italian, Simple, Good Taste

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

topic: Dream, Italian, Shoes, Marketing Strategy, Handmade

- Dominic Chianese

topic: Father, Believe, Italian, Aria

I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

- Dominic Chianese

topic: Girl, Italian, Men, Italian Girl

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.

- Dominic Chianese

topic: Children, Italian, Ideas

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

- Donatella Versace

topic: Sleep, Italian, Expression

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

- Donna Leon

topic: Loyalty, Italian, Cities

The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

- Edith Durham

topic: Italian, White, Long, Dandy, Embroidery

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

- Edith Wharton

topic: Music, Artist, Italian, Swedish, English Speaking

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

- Edmund White

topic: School, Italian, Past, Abbey

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

- Eduard Hanslick

topic: Italian, Body, Painting, Intestines

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

- Eli Wallach

topic: Italian, Mentor

Theres nothing more romantic than Italian food.

- Elisha Cuthbert

topic: Italian, Italian Food

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

- Elizabeth Olsen

topic: Mother, Italian, Islands

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

- Elton John

topic: Attitude, Italian, People

The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

- Erwin Rommel

topic: Italian, Soldier, World, German Soldiers

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Italian, French Love, Cuisine

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Beautiful, Nice, Italian, Appreciate Beauty

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

- Felicity Huffman

topic: Kids, Makeup, Italian, Hair And Makeup

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

- Felicity Jones

topic: Italian, Vanity, Bags, Treasured

Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

- Frances Mayes

topic: Italian, Eyebrows, Necks

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

- Francis Ford Coppola

topic: Italian, House, Proud, Italian American, Being Italian

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

- Frank Bruno

topic: Italian, Speak

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

- Frank Gehry

topic: Artist, Italian, Influence, Bernini

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: "The best violins in all Italy." Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: "The Best Violins In All The World!" At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: "The best violins on the block."

- Freda Bright

topic: Family, Block, Italian, Proclaiming, Front Doors

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

- Fredrik Bajer

topic: Italian, Doubt, Demand, Esperanto

The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

- G. M. Trevelyan

topic: Song, Italian, Night

The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.

- Geoffrey Nunberg

topic: Writing, Italian, Scripts, Groundbreaking

An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.

- George Augustus Henry Sala

topic: Italian, Men, Two, Italian Proverb, Mortal Sin

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

- George Hamilton

topic: Men, Italian, Police, Liverpool Fans

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

- George Saintsbury

source: George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.44, tredition

topic: Exercise, Italian, Atmosphere, Chaucer

Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

- George Weigel

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Italian, Elderly, Shrines, Saint Peter

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

- Geraldine Ferraro

topic: Italian, Men, People

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

- Giada De Laurentiis

topic: Simple, Italian, Oil, Olive Oil, Lemon Juice

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

- Giada De Laurentiis

topic: Beautiful, Italian, Simple, Pantry, Italian Food

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

- Giada De Laurentiis

topic: Italian, People, Pasta, Italian Family, Everything In Moderation

Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of SalÃ²] is also included.

- Gianfranco Fini

topic: Italian, Past, Evil

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

- Gianni Versace

topic: Italian, Thinking, Typical, Clans

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

- Giorgio Napolitano

topic: Italian, Effort, Should

You've got to be good to each other ... it really comes back to respect. I was raised in a very Catholic, Italian family and it was all about respect. Don't talk badly about [your partner] the second they walk out the door; really preserve your relationship and be good to each other. Treat it like gold.

- Giuliana Rancic

topic: Italian, Doors, Advice, Italian Family, Love Advice

It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

- Graham Spanier

topic: Home, Italian, Kitchen, Homemade

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

- Gregory Corso

topic: Fighting, Italian, Lucky

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.

- Gustav Stresemann

topic: Italian, Would Be, Heritage, Faust, Cultural Heritage

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Music, Baseball, Italian

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

- Harry Lloyd

topic: Italian, Parent, Polish

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

- Heather Matarazzo

topic: Italian, Birth, Grew Up

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.

- Howard K. Smith

source: Howard K. Smith (1951). “The State of Europe”

topic: Italian, America, Paradise, Disregarded, Telegrams

Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

- Hugh Dalton

topic: Italian, Speak, Officers, Speaks French

In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!

- Hunter Hayes

topic: Italian, Cities, Two

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.

- Indro Montanelli

source: "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

topic: Husband, Italian, Order

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

- Indro Montanelli

source: Preface to "Il Pollaio delle Libertà" by Marco Travaglio, Vallecchi, 1995.

topic: Nice, Italian, Names

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

- Indro Montanelli

source: "il Giornale nuovo" Newspaper, (p. 1), August 20, 1977.

topic: Italian, Offers, Occasions, Rare Occasion

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

- Irving Babbitt

topic: Italian, Humane

There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.

- Itzhak Perlman

topic: Italian, Sound, Fine

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

- Izabel Goulart

topic: Italian, One Day, Speak

A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of Â£40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

- James Fenton

topic: Italian, Interesting, Florence, Happy Times

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

- James Franco

topic: Italian, Mcdonalds, Different

Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.

- James Laver

topic: Eye, Italian, Hands

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

- Janet Campbell Hale

source: Janet Campbell Hale (1998). “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter”, p.20, University of Arizona Press

topic: Country, Italian, America, Italian Culture

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

- Jason Bateman

topic: Gay, Italian, People, Italian American, Gay People

Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting. That's the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years

- Jay Leno

topic: Congratulations, Italian, Winning

At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

- Jean Chretien

topic: Italian, Dollars, Boards

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on â€“ unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

- Jean Edward Smith

topic: War, Italian, Government

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

- Jeffrey Deitch

source: Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.

topic: Art, Italian, World, Italian Renaissance

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

- Jen Lancaster

topic: Italian, Blood, Half, Sicilian, Italian Food

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

- Jennifer Esposito

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Mean, Italian, Spaghetti Sauce

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

topic: Food, Italian, Pigs, Indian Food, Italian Food

My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. Thats my aspiration.

- Jeremy Miller

topic: Grandmother, Italian, One Day

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Artist, Italian, Years, Raphael

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

- Joe Jonas

source: "Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas: Can They Still be Friends?". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2010.

topic: Italian, Coconuts, Love Making, Italian Food

One thing he misses about New Jersey: One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!

- Joe Jonas

topic: Italian, Ice, California

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Book, Italian, Thinking

I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.

- John Diefenbaker

topic: Country, Party, Italian, Scandinavians, Ukrainian

[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

- John Milton

topic: Italian, Numbers, Long, Syllables

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

- Johnny Ramone

topic: Italian, Might, Hollywood, Horror Film, Hollywood Films

The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.

- Josip Broz Tito

source: "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.

topic: War, Italian, Yugoslavia, Dependence, Totalitarian Regimes

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

- Joy Behar

topic: Italian, Thinking, People, Yiddish

People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

- Joyce DeWitt

topic: Italian, Thinking, People

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

- Juan Manuel Fangio

topic: Italian, Littles, Speak

I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

- Judy Tenuta

topic: Italian, Half, Polish

No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.

- Juvenal

topic: Nice, Italian, Hell, Go To Hell

Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Communication, Italian, August

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

- Kate Walsh

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Dad, Italian

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.

- Kató Lomb

topic: Mistake, Italian, Bridges

My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

- Kendall Jenner

topic: Dream, Jobs, Italian, Dream Job

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

- Kristin Chenoweth

topic: Italian, Get Better, Want, Italian Food

I've played Latin, I've played Italian. And I've played the all-around regular girl. I think the thing about the way I look, is that I can look like many different things. People sometimes ask me if I'm Russian. I don't think I specifically look like a Puerto Rican or an Italian. Wouldn't you agree?

- Lana Parrilla

topic: Girl, Latin, Italian

I'm Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.

- Lea Michele

topic: Italian, Curse

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

- Leah LaBelle

topic: Mom, Italian, Cooking, Food Love, Italian Cooking

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

- Lee Child

topic: Italian, Term, Sicilian, Italian Food

there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.

- Letitia Baldrige

topic: Italian, Men, Two, Homo Sapiens

Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.

- Linda Evangelista

topic: Italian, Two, Months

Jessica swallowed. "I think you had better stick to English." "But Italian is so moving," Dain said. "To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi." I've wanted you from the first moment I saw you. "Mi tormenti ancora." You've tormented me ever since.

- Loretta Chase

topic: Moving, Thinking, Italian, Jessica

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

- Lorraine Bracco

topic: Mother, Father, Italian, Italian American

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

- Louis Gossett, Jr.

source: "Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

topic: Father, Italian, Grew Up

There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.

- Louise Rennison

topic: Italian, Bananas, Care

Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.

- Louise Rennison

topic: Italian, Dave, Tarts

Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.

- Lucia Perillo

source: Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Italian, Rocks, Names, Hunk

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

- Luke Pasqualino

source: "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

topic: Dad, Italian, Dialect, Naples

I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.

- Luke Pasqualino

source: "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

topic: Nice, Italian, Cooking

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

- Mack McLarty

source: "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

topic: Italian, White, Political, White House, Chief Of Staff

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

- Magnus

topic: Italian, Play, Tennis

I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

- Malin Akerman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Italian, Say Anything, Pasta, Italian Food, Mozzarella

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipulation and refined by the ultimate polish of a sauce.

- Marcella Hazan

topic: Italian, Long, Kitchen

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

- Marcella Hazan

topic: Art, Italian, Age

- Marcella Hazan

topic: Italian, Cooking, Done, Italian Cooking

I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with racism everyday. I'm the first black to wear the jersey of Italy. I'm not angry, but my life experiencies make me act differently from other people. Then, try to learn more before you criticize me.

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.

topic: Angel, Italian, Two

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

topic: Football, Italian, Play

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.

topic: Italian, One Day, Proud

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

topic: School, Italian, Proud

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

source: "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

topic: Passion, Italian, Population, Italian American

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.

topic: Book, Italian, Cooking, Italian Cooking

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

topic: Italian, Doors, Expression, Italian Family, Punctuation Marks