Italian Culinary Quotes & Sayings

The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice. — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

I came back from the bridge bathed in tears. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree. — Thomas Menino

Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do. — Quintus Ennius

Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling. One she hadn't known was ever hers to forget. Happiness. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

A bad memory is the mother of invention. — Gerald Brenan

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be. — Chloe Thurlow

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Even French pilferage has not relegated Italian culinary genius to the darker corners of gastronomy. Marie de' Medici brought Italian cookery to France, where Gallic duplicity quickly undermined the integrity of good ingredients with unctuous sauces. The French will always confuse egregious decorative effects with creative integrity. They have a genius for appearances. Trompe l'oeil will do for a Frenchman, but not for an Italian. — Roland Delicio

Giada De Laurentiis, of 'Everyday Italian,' is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise - she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family. — Bill Buford

The spirit that emerged outside a Mafia-run bar in 1969 became the pulse of the gay community and inspired not just an annual parade but ways to express gay pride in individual lives.
Stonewall happens every day. — Ann Bausum

Okay, that was so far down Creepy Lane that it had intersected with Scaring the Hell Out of Me Avenue. I hated that avenue. — Devon Monk

whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you! — Maggie Stiefvater

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there. — Jonas Carpignano

Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams — Billy Graham

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. — John Huston

My life was shit until a few hours ago. My heart only started beating again when I saw you walking up the stairs toward me. — Katy Regnery

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues. — Luca Parmitano