Carlo Petrini Quotes

#1. Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.

Carlo Petrini

#2. My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

N. Scott Momaday

#3. Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.

Janaki Sooriyarachchi

#5. Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Carlo Petrini

#6. I told you we should have rescued the boy first.

Suzanne Collins

#7. The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

Carlo Petrini

#8. Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

Carlo Petrini

#9. My ears were once pierced, but the tiny holes have since resealed through lack of penetration. And yes, there's another analogy in there, but let's not get off topic.

Virginia Franken

#10. I allowed him to carry me down the stairs but was surprised when he didn't make it to the sofa.

K.A. Poe

#11. I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.'

Margaret Stohl

#12. I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#13. I believe that he who sows utopia will reap reality.

Carlo Petrini

#14. Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

Vince Gill

#15. If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

Edna Ferber

#16. Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Carlo Petrini

#17. It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#18. Taste, like identity, has value only when there are differences,

Carlo Petrini

#19. Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

W. Graham Scroggie

#20. The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat

#21. A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.

Carlo Petrini

#22. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ...

Jacqueline Novogratz