1930s Quote by Maria Martin Download Open image ““An ancestor from the 1530s would find little different in the 1930s. [Basilicata, Italy]”” — Maria Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1930s Fascism Italy
“After arriving on the ancestral soil I figured out pretty quickly why that [Italian] heritage swamps all competition. It's a culture that sweeps you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I wish that I would have asked my grandparents more about their early lives in Italy when I had the chance to do so.” — Marianne Perry Copy Share Image
“Whether it was the delicious food they filled us with, their humorous antics, or the extreme warmth and acceptance they provided the family, one… — Jacqueline Miconi Copy Share Image
“In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.” — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to the building up of a vast array of wonderful church edifices, and starving half her citizens to accomplish it. She is today one vast museum of magnificence and misery. All the churches in an ordinary American… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“They went to Italy. Neither of them cared in the smallest degree for sculpture, architecture, painting, archaeology, poetry, history, politics, scenery, languages, or foreigners.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We Italian Americans, on the other hand, commemorate our past only to remind ourselves how far we have travelled from it.” — Joseph Luzzi Copy Share Image
“I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.” — Celia Conrad Copy Share Image
“Let’s start with Michelangelo’s predecessors. What did they want the chapel to say, and what relevance, if any, do these ideas still have today?” — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.” — Walter Shaw Sparrow Copy Share Image
“Italian Roseto. Roseto, Pennsylvania, was its own tiny, self-sufficient world—all but unknown by the society around it—and it might well have” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“They were excessively pleased with the Campo Santa Maria Formosa. They thought the façades of the houses very magnificent – they could not praise… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament]” — Maria Martin Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with… — James Frain Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade Copy Share Image
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews.… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image