Italian Sicilian Quotes & Sayings

a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent — Traci Andrighetti

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on. — Lee Child

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

All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing a hankering for death; our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a hankering for voluptuous immobility, that is, for death again; our meditative air is that of a void wanting to scrutinize the enigmas of nirvana. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually. — Martin Scorsese

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian. — Jen Lancaster

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor. — Lady Gaga

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. — Al Pacino