Hyphenated Italians Quotes & Sayings

These neighborhood was our first home as a community but, once Italians began to gain status as "full" Americans, they moved out of the communities that they co-habited with other immigrants and people of color. The rootedness in this community shifted into a dissention of difference and of privilege. In order for Italian-Americans to mark their new social location under assumed "Whiteness," they had to make a physical move away from the marginal communities of color. The discussion ended in my favor but would mark the beginning of a long struggle of unpacking the internalized oppression and discrimination that marked my family's identity of "White"-working class-Italian-Americans learning to assimilate while keeping their hyphenated identity. Learning to build bridges between my different borders and my passions has been a continual process for me. — Lachrista Greco

Putting down the burden of the lie has meant giving up the freedom of the dream. — M.L. Stedman

But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you. — Yun Kouga

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications. — Joshua Lederberg

Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding. — Carl Sagan

there's nothing scarier than silent Italians; it's unnatural — Joe Novella

Please look after this bear. — Michael Bond

The cucina casalinga and cucina povera are the new haute cuisines. — Loretta Gatto-White

Sir? said Jeeves, kind of manifesting himself. One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. He's like one of those weird chappies in India who dissolve themselves into thin air and nip through space in a sort of disembodied way and assemble the parts again just where they want them. I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie. — P.G. Wodehouse

On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky. — Joyce Carol Oates

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell. — Huey Lewis

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes. — Daniel H. Wilson

Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see. — Joe Novella

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do. — Kathy Ireland

My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman. — Terry J. Lundgren