Great Sicilian Quotes & Sayings

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side. — Cyndi Lauper

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood. — Brion James

And I certainly intend to direct someday. — Casper Van Dien

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. — Amy Adams

You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud. — T.R. Fehrenbach

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place. — Nonie Darwish

You can't out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them. — Brian Halligan

I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for. — Shirley Temple

The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a dozen years the stars were coming out above him, in great processions of wheeling fire. He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him ... the river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper. The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to consider this month, this year, and a lifetime of years. He listened to his heart slow. His thoughts stopped rushing with his blood. — Ray Bradbury

And if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind. It is too ridiculous! When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him? — Jane Austen

The Beast had been a monster. He'd been a murderer. And yet on some terrible, deep level, he had been the only one to truly understand me. — Megan Shepherd

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. — Charles Caleb Colton

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were. — Chazz Palminteri