Great Sicilian Sayings

#1. I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

Cyndi Lauper

#2. Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Billy Graham

#3. What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute ... what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination

Meg Cabot

#6. But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.

Anne Rice

#7. You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Jen Calonita

#8. Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

Lewis Carroll

#9. My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

Chazz Palminteri

#10. I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Amy Adams