Sicilian Quotes - Page 2

• I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

  Jen Lancaster

  Italian, Blood, Half

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• I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

  Martin Scorsese

  Italian, East, Sides

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• Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Running, Hands, Risk

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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

  Chazz Palminteri

  Mom, Dad, Cooks

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• In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

  Alice Hoffman

  Senior, Stars, Real

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.56, Penguin Group

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