Italian Culture Quotes:

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

- Mark Twain

source: The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 27

topic: Funny, Travel, Humor, Italian Culture, Italian Food

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: War, Coffee, Hard Work, Italian Culture, Cappuccino

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

- Mariska Hargitay

topic: Appreciation, Italian, Culture, Italian Culture, Good Things In Life

I love the Italian culture, it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes, I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.

- Penelope Cruz

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

topic: Beautiful, Attitude, Italian, Italian Culture, Women's Bodies

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.

- Mario Batali

source: Source: www.popsugar.com

topic: Italian, Our World, Culture, Italian Culture, New England

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

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.

- Michael K. Williams

source: "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

topic: Childhood, Use, Colorful, Jewish Culture, Italian Culture

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

- Jonas Carpignano

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Italian, Culture, Influence, Italian Culture, Couscous