Endure Quote by Cyndi Lauper

My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

— Chazz Palminteri

“[As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect...”

— Frances Mayes

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

— Daniel J. King

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

— William Goldman

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest…

— Vinny Guadagnino

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

“We are but poor circus performers. the Sicilian explained. It is dark and we are lost. We were told that there is a village…

— William Goldman

Italians work hard physically and tactically.

— Marcos Alonso

Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations from which she has taken both the best and the worst. The sequence of different cultures has made…

— Andrea Camilleri

I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

— Domenico Dolce

I get on well with Italians. Which makes things easier when I meet, for example, my future mechanics at Ferrari.

— Charles Leclerc