Italian Canadians Quotes

#1. Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#2. In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him.

Stephen Richards

#3. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

#4. When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

Paul Goodman

#5. Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

Peter Davison

#6. She banged her knuckles until they ached to get the attention of the living flesh behind the glass, and would have smashed her fist through the window just to touch him, feel his heat, the only thing that could protect her from a smothering death of dry roses.

Toni Morrison

#7. Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

Toni Morrison

#9. Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

John F. Kennedy

#11. The cucina casalinga and cucina povera are the new haute cuisines.

Loretta Gatto-White