Top 37 Quotes About Tuscany
#1. My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.
Frances Mayes
#3. I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.
Rose McGowan
#4. Not just a recipe book, but a genuine overview of Tuscany's culinary history and culture, a journey in images through photographs taken specifically by expert photographers.
Tuscookany
#5. I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.
Blake Lively
#6. When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
Andrea Bocelli
#7. Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#8. I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.
Celia Conrad
#9. Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage
#10. Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
Arthur Smith
#12. Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.
Joanna Lumley
#13. Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
Anthony Lewis
#14. The best meal I was served was ribollita, an Italian bread soup at the Castello di Ama winery in Tuscany. I usually hate ribollita, and the people I was traveling with thought I was crazy for ordering it.
Tom Douglas
#15. I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.
Adriano Giannini
#16. Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#17. We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.
Debi Mazar
#18. If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.
Melanie Rawn
#19. I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don't like big towns.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#20. A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that is the nature of resentment, the objection we cannot express. It is silence more than the complaint itself that makes the emotion so toxic, like poisons the body won't pee away.
Lionel Shriver
#21. Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
Eda LeShan
#22. Mayday used to be a distress signal, a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school.
Margaret Atwood
#23. Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.
Gay Talese
#24. In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
Chris Stein
#27. renounce it as soon as it comes to mind - renounce everything in its entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all.
Oswald Chambers
#28. They look so relaxed, so happily engaged in the present moment, these four women drinking cappuccinos and savoring the creamy cannolis.
Sophia Bar-Lev
#29. He's already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I'd like to run off with, if I already hadn't.
Frances Mayes
#30. However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#31. In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.
Pietros Maneos
#32. Maybe the real freedom is in letting go of the what-ifs. Choosing hopeful expectation over worry that life is going to shortchange you.
Melissa Tagg
#33. Julie went to her hotel room window to check that the Campo, the central square of Siena, Italy, was still out there.
Candida Martinelli
#34. Religion does not stop adolescents from having sex; it only makes them feel bad about about the sex they do have.
Darrel Ray
#35. It is the house of my dreams. My Tuscan dream! [Every Italophile's dream]
Kate Fitzroy
#36. We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Rowan Williams