Quote by Frances Mayes

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

— Cyndi Lauper

“There is an impulse for vengeance among certain men south of the border that leaves even the sturdiest Sicilian gasping for fresh air.”

— Jim Harrison

“That's what I admire about youngish Italians, the slow dimunition of ambition, the recognition that the best is far behind them.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a…

— Samuel Johnson

“My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom…

— Mario Puzo

“Very helpful, I must say. Look at them in the eye and shout, and they understand every word..." (Mr. Warbeck in Sienna, talking about…

— Hilary McKay

“The Sicilian people were very friendly. Once we drove the Germans out I got to see Catania, where every house had homemade spaghetti drying…

— Charles Brandt

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

— Chazz Palminteri

“Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Maybe I don't have to perfect, I just have to be good enough.”

— Kerry Cohen

“Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert