Nonno In Italian Quotes & Sayings

Luca's grandfather (who
I hope is known as Nonno Spaghetti) gave him his first sky-blue Lazio jersey when the boy
was just a toddler. Luca, likewise, will be a Lazio fan until he dies.
"We can change our wives," he said. "We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even
our religions, but we can never change our team."
By the way, the word for "fan" in Italian is tifoso. Derived from the word for typhus. In other
words - one who is mightily fevered. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself? — Jamaica Kincaid

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh. — Lisa Kudrow

So you eat them. And don't try chucking them away. I'll know. I empty the bins. — Diana Wynne Jones

Single universe, many planets,many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others. — Hamzatribah

It doesn't make sense. Or, rather, it makes just one kind of sense. Hanky-panky. Ben is as used to hanky-panky as a bride is to kisses. He didn't get to be one of the best winchells in the business through playing his cards face up. — Robert A. Heinlein

There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry? — James Harvey Robinson

Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Our models do have a strong congruence with the world. Our models fall far short of representing the real world fully. — Donella H. Meadows

I say no wealth is worth my life! Not all they claim
was stored in the depths of Troy, that city built on riches,
in the old days of peace before the sons of Achaea came-
not all the gold held fast in the Archer's rocky vaults,
in Phoebus Apollo's house on Pytho's sheer cliffs!
Cattle and fat sheep can all be had for the raiding,
tripods all for the trading, and tawny-headed stallions.
But a man's life breath cannot come back again-
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Mother tells me,
the immortal goddess Thetis with her glistening feet,
that two fates bear me on to the day of death.
If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
If I voyage back to the fatherland I love,
my pride, my glory dies ...
true, but the life that's left me will be long,
the stroke of death will not come on me quickly. — Homer

While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves. — Rihanna

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings. — Allan Lokos

The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems. — Nicolle Wallace