Quotes About Nonna

#1. Trace is cooking Nonna's lasagna."
"Wow. I must see this."
"He was wearing her little apron and everything."
"Got a camera?

Joss Stirling

#2. Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.

Christopher Castellani

#3. This'll do it. Can you see Tereza and Maddy over there getting pedicures and arguing."
"Mmm," Sophia mused. "They disagree about the name for the beauty products we don't even have
yet. I don't know if it's Maddy or the concept, but it's boosted Nonna's morale.

Nora Roberts

#4. There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.)

Traci Andrighetti

#5. If Nonna sensed weakness, she'd zero in for the kill

Rosie Genova

#6. Food has power. Nonna knew that. Ma did too. I know it now. And though it can't save me, it might help me, in some way. All I have besides food is grief.

Jael McHenry

#7. Love isn't like a roast turkey that is or is not ready. It simply IS, and you must let it guide you.

Judith Michael

#8. Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

Peter Armitage

#9. The past is gone and what is ahead is still to be felt.

Nonna Bannister

#10. There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#11. The popular idea that Christianity says "human nature" is inherently bad is actually the opposite of what the earliest Christian theologians believed.

Nonna Verna Harrison

#12. Never give up hope, and look for the rainbows and happiness!

Nonna Bannister

#13. The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity

Joe Perry

#14. a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent

Traci Andrighetti

#15. The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything

Don Shula

#16. He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.

John Grisham

#17. The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

P.G. Wodehouse