#italy

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erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.


Jess Walter


#cowboys #empires #italy #age

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.


Romano Prodi


#any #carries #europe #influence #italy

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.


Romano Prodi


#commission #did #european #five #i

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.


Romano Prodi


#divided #employed #italy #north #old

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.


Ian Rush


#around #became #because #been #better

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.


E.M. Forster


#italy #people #wine #beauty

At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to knock off all the ants. Then I'm happy. With a stunted oak tree for shelter and a never-ending view, I am hidden. No one knows where I am. The nine-year-old's thrill of the hideout under the hydrangea comes back: My mother is calling me and I am not answering.


Frances Mayes


#home #italy #sense-of-place #home

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts. Winston Churchill


H.A. Corby


#florence #italy #murder #mystery #renaissance

The Lazio fans always stop here on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs. I love Italy.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#italy #home

Seeing no better jobs on the horizon than flipping hamburgers with so much grease it would make Portugal, Italy, and Spain jealous, I decided to go back to school. It reminds me of something Zelda’s mom told her in November 2007: “Some people flip condos and make millions. Your boyfriend couldn’t even flip burgers and make minimum wage.


Jarod Kintz


#condos #depression #economic-depression #economy #horizon