#italia

Tutt'intorno a noi scorreva la città di Roma, splendida nella sua indifferenza, eternamente sicura di sé, felice di prendersi i nostri soldi e posare per una foto, ma senza avere alla fin fine bisogno di niente e di nessuno. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#città #italia #italy #lazio #roma

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#families #family #italian #jewish #then

Un guerriero della luce presta attenzione agli occhi di un bambino. Perché quegli occhi sanno vedere il mondo senza amarezza. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#italian #life #manuale-del-guerriero-della-luce #inspirational

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

#become #by the time #family #family man #girl

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. ↗

— Donna Leon

#anyone #around #best #better #dishonest

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#both #descent #different #different backgrounds #extremely

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#being #built #bus #bus driver #community

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#build #built #each #five #gradually

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#back #cause #collection #day #design

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

— H. L. Mencken

#baseball #english #italian #just #main