Libonati Italy Quotes

This charity ... They quibble too much over procedures ... while we seek a cure. They complain too loudly against another who, seemingly, has perfected a work that the public expects its charity dollars to do. Maybe we should investigate the American Cancer Society's operations. ~ Roland V. Libonati

Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths. ~ Roland V. Libonati

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian. ~ Mario Balotelli

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ~ Umberto Eco

This is my Italy, she thought. The power and beauty of the antiquities, the detailed frescos, the imposing statuaries carved of milk white granite, Don Martinelli's hammered gold chalice, the glorious tones of the music, the Italy of Puccini and Verdi, Caruso and Toscanini, not the Italy of the shattered spirits in Hoboken and the drunken, desperate Anna Buffa. This was the Italy that fed her soul, where hope was restored and broken hearts were mended in the hands of great artists. ~ Adriana Trigiani

Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy". ~ Robert Browning

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice. ~ Matteo Renzi

We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil. ~ Theodor Mommsen

If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy. ~ Christian Louboutin

Italy, despite its earthiness and charm, can never be New Jersey. Here we value evolution and change; Italy, while it warms the heart, is a monument to the past. In America we change our rooms as often as our fashions. In Italy you're likely to find throw pillows older than the Shroud of Turin. It's just a different way to live. ~ Adriana Trigiani

I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament] ~ Maria Martin

It certainly wasn't the sensible thing to do. [Referring to her move to Italy.] ~ Jennifer Criswell

...the first twenty years of the republic had done more harm to Italy than the Fascists and Nazis combined. ~ Marco Vichi

My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration. ~ Debasish Mridha

Italy: It's been a while since I slept with you, Romano.
Romano: Shut up! You should have at least two beds in your place!
Italy: How weird... I usually sleep together with Germany and Japan.
Romano: [Grabs Italy's throat] You still get along with them!
[Repeatedly bashes his head into his brother's]
Italy: Bro, I can't breathe. Bro, I can't breathe!
[Cut to Germany's office; his phone is ringing. He picks it up]
Italy: Germany, save me! I'm on my bed and my brother is- ow!
Romano: Not there!
Italy: It's stuck! OW!
Romano: Put down the phone, you fool!
Italy: TAKE IT OUT!
Romano: Put it down!
[Line goes dead]
Germany: [Slightly disturbed] His brother's... stuck..."ow"... take it out...
[Germany bursts into Italy's room]
Italy: Italy, are you okay! What's going-!
[He realizes the brothers' signature hair curls are merely tangled with each other]
Italy: Germany, you're late! ~ Hidekaz Himaruya

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives. ~ Mario Monti

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

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. ~ Joichi Ito

One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination. ~ Debra Levinson

In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices. ~ Gia Coppola

The Italy of my children will be at head of Europe, economically. Because Italy has all the conditions to be the country of the startups, the country of artisans and quality, and the country of the big companies. ~ Matteo Renzi

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear. ~ Peter Bofinger

I realize my life here is much richer than I ever could have imagined. [Why one Canadian immigrant to Italy stays] ~ Ivanka Di Felice

Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. ~ Edmund Phelps

In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver. ~ Debi Mazar

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world. ~ Anibal Cavaco Silva

The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy. ~ Emma Bonino

Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive. ~ Mario Monti

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past. ~ Mario Monti

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get herself around Italy too. ~ Carol Grace

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri

I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows. ~ Moran Atias

The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world. ~ Loretta Lynch

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life. ~ Hugh Dalton

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country. ~ Ian Rush

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. ~ Thomas Paine

You may have the universe if I may have Italy ~ Giuseppe Verdi

The most stylish country in the world is Italy. ~ Nick Rhodes

If you deconstruct Italy, you will in the end see a grapevine, a tomato and a small boy hammering a shard of marble. ~ Pietros Maneos

...is there anywhere in the world as full of beauty as Italy? ~ Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike." - Vivia ~ Leah Marie Brown

Italy is a geographical expression. ~ Prince Metternich

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. ~ E. M. Forster

Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again. ~ Milton Friedman

You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they sat, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato. ~ Jenna Evans Welch

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon. ~ Mario Monti

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up. ~ Chet Faker

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? ~ Erica Jong

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. ~ Christian Lacroix

Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy. ~ Louise Mensch

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy. ~ Claudia Cardinale

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny. ~ Mario Monti

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others. ~ Edmund Phelps

Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity. ~ Glenn Haybittle

I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest. ~ Leonardo Del Vecchio

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy. ~ Valeria Golino

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. ~ Erica Jong

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted. ~ Barbara Steele

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. ~ Billy Tauzin

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy. ~ Ennio Morricone

In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be. ~ Pietros Maneos

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. ~ Harry Seidler

Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble, first monarch, renowned above all. ~ Nostradamus

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines. ~ Theodor Mommsen

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. ~ Theodor Mommsen

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

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s. ~ Will.i.am

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy. ~ Adriano Giannini

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. ~ Nicolas Cage

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy. ~ Paolo Sorrentino

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Italy will always have the best food. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine. ~ Carlo Rubbia

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. ~ Kenneth Rexroth

We at Ferrari are a small, dynamic company, and we show what Italy can do. ~ Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it. ~ John Ridley

Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself might have been a better man if he had spent less of his life there. ~ Henry James

The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper. ~ Bill Buford

France has become the second-largest consumer of pizza per person, per pound, in the world, behind the United States and ahead of Italy. ~ Elaine Sciolino

The basic philosophy of life seemed to be: What do I care? It's none of my business. [The philosophy of Naples, Italy.] ~ Franco Di Mare

Oh, boy... it's hug time." (Italy)
"Would you stop it with your hug-therapy already?!" (Romano)
"I'll never understand Catholics..." (Germany)
Germany, Italy, and Romano ~ Hidekaz Himaruya

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. ~ Oriana Fallaci

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery ~ D.H. Lawrence

In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income. ~ Edmund Phelps

First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring, but complicated. It's the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis. ~ Beppe Severgnini

Whether a gastronomic tour of Italy, an elegant meal at the home of an Italian acquaintance, or "cooking Italian" back in one's own kitchen, the prospect is mouth-watering. ~ Claudia Piras

The young were all fleeing the countryside to work in the city. Nobody seemed to want to live any more between the soil and the cow pats. [Italy in 1960s] ~ Marco Vichi

Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. ~ Joseph Jacobs

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. ~ Michel Patini

Italy is a divided country without a center. ~ Christian Lacroix

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses. ~ Emma Bonino

Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war. ~ Tom Brokaw

Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one. ~ Arto Lindsay

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work. ~ Asia Argento

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

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire. ~ Pele

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

I'd rather not have an address in France but an address in Italy because I love the country. ~ Gerard Depardieu

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian. ~ Jen Lancaster