“Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.” — Alfred Zappala Copy Share Image
Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies. — Maria Grazia Cucinotta Copy Share Image
My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
Who would have thought we would be part of a winning coalition in Molise and Sicily? That we would win in places… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
“Sicilians never forget and they never forgive. This is a truth you must always keep in mind.” — Edward Falco Copy Share Image
My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
“sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.” — Estelle Getty Copy Share Image
The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Mafia landmarks are found everywhere in beautiful Sicily, an unfortunate byproduct of the island’s tragic history. By mapping theses strange sites and… — Carl Russo Copy Share Image
Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is… — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
I rented a house in Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, in the mid or late '90s. There was a revolving door… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore,… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe I’m hearing this!’ she declared. ‘You’d been positively insulting about the fact that I knew nothing about Sicily—and just… — Sharon Kendrick Copy Share Image
“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
“All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“ North and south Italy is a nation of contrasts. Most of the industries and businesses are in the north, where people… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“You texted Garcia for help?" Jack gritted out. "Garcia? Not me?" "He has a gun." "So do I." "He's steady and reliable,"… — Sara Desai Copy Share Image
“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
