#italy

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet! ↗

— Giovannino Guareschi

#don-camillo #humour #italy #priesthood #catholicism

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#granted #italy #light #nobody #takes

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch. ↗

— James Taylor

#basically #brazil #catch #cultures #extremely

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#close #could #europe #germany #greece

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

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#beautiful #easy #england #italy #living

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#any #carries #europe #influence #italy

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#commission #did #european #five #i

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#divided #employed #italy #north #old

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#italy #people #wine #beauty