Italian History Quotes

#1. With exotic settings, sensual conflict, and an intriguing hint of Italian history, Katherine Bone's contemporary debut captivated me!"

Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author

Katherine Bone

#2. Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

Dario Argento

#3. The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

Peter Weller

#5. For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

Suzanne Somers

#6. I know not what to do, my mind is divided

Sappho

#7. And the history of civilization is littered with dead "races" (Frankish, Italian, German, Irish) later abandoned because they no longer serve their purpose - the organization of people beneath, and beyond, the umbrella of rights.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#8. This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice.

John Foot

#9. I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.

Elton John

#10. I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

Anne Burrell

#11. Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in his book 'De divina proportione', written in 1509.

Midhat Gazale

#13. If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.
(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)

Winston S. Churchill

#14. Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Edward Thorndike

#15. do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the sin of Borgia, than all the brawling boors and cooking women of Dutch art can teach us of the real spirit of the history of Holland?

Oscar Wilde

#16. How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.

Sam Harris

#17. We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

James E. Faust

#18. What are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. My name means freedom [in Irish].

Saoirse Ronan

#20. When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

Nicolas Cage

#21. History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Pietros Maneos

#22. I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me ... just like everyone else.

Laura Bickle

#23. It made no sense, but I always wanted to create a home, even in the most unlikely places.

Wafaa Bilal

#24. Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#25. I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers.

Katherine Applegate

#26. James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called Mary to confuse future readers of history books),

Stephen Clarke