#italia

I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around. ↗

— Steve Burns

#always #am #around #because #before

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

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#after #elementary #elementary school #gave #i

I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair. ↗

— Thom Filicia

#fair #furniture #galactica #great #i

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#been #french #greek #i #italian

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inferno #italian-medieval-poetry #lustful #passion #reason

Quanto a Emma, non si chiedeva se lo amasse. Ella credeva che l'amore dovesse arrivare all'improvviso, con fragori e folgori; uragano dei cieli che cade sulla vita, la sconvolge, strappa via le volontà come foglie, e trascina all'abisso il cuore intero. Ella non sapeva che sulle terrazze delle case la pioggia forma laghetti quando le grondaie sono ingorgate, e avrebbe continuato a credersi al sicuro, quando a un tratto scoprì una crepa nel muro. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#italiano #love #love

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#irishmen #italians #multiculturalism #native-americans #paternalism

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in. ↗

— Pietros Maneos

#history #italian-pleasures #italy #maneos #novella

Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back "Polo! ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#italian #love