#italia

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

Italians have no sense of the dramatic. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#italians #sense

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one. ↗

— Mario Monti

#among #been #compliment #considered #economists

The Italian economy has been held back for decades. ↗

— Mario Monti

#been #decades #economy #held #italian

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#difficulty #italians #just #up #who

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

— Giorgio Napolitano

#effort #exempt #italian #italy #itself

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. ↗

— Al Pacino

#bit #dose #everybody #except #full

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#father #four #god #good #guys

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

#ancient #attempt #century #certain #christianity

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance. ↗

— Alain Prost

#find #geniuses #italians #some #you