New York Italian Sayings

#1. You don't get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn't shout "Irish Power", "Jew Power", [or] "Italian Power". They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.

Whitney M. Young

#2. My own grandparents came to the United States as immigrants in 1912, and they lived for some years in Italian ghettos in New York. Most immigrant groups start in ghettos somewhere, and many of them never get out.

Jay Parini

#3. The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.... but it's willing too

Josh Stern

#4. People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.

Bob Goodlatte

#5. I never really knew what fine cuisine was when I was a little boy in Canada. For me, Italian food was 'Kraft Dinner' or pizza. When I moved to New York, that's when I discovered all the Italian food.

Sebastian Bach

#6. The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Curt Weldon

#7. In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way.

Peter Eisenman

#8. In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#9. Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Jacques Barzun

#10. I got pulled over when I was behind the wheel of a Porsche in Philly once for what we call DWB - Driving While Black.

Charles Barkley

#11. 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

#12. New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York.

David Frost

#13. I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.

Wylie Dufresne

#14. If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Per Petterson

#16. I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.

Big Pun

#17. The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.

Charles Spurgeon

#18. I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

Aida Turturro

#19. If we truly believe that every girl in every corner of the globe is worthy of an education as our own daughters and granddaughters are, then we need to deepen our commitment to these efforts

Michelle Obama

#20. There is beauty in what is broken.

K.K. Hendin

#21. I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

Michael Imperioli