“Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.” CoursesBornProudOne DayItalian Author:Mario Balotelli
“I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.” PeopleMindMeanWould BeCitiesPoliticianOne DayBoundsItalianGrainAgricultureRelianceDiscouragedReviveGood Mind Author:Augustus
“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.” IfsSaidUseShowsLyingDesireProduceIndustryOne DayWasteLaborPlantPhilosopherItalianEstatesCultivationNegligence Author:Samuel Johnson
“I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.” ThinkingKnowsMindHas BeensBookAgeReadingCenturyPeriodsOne DayBuyingItalianFashionableBook ReadingRenaissanceFloweringGreat MindsItalian RenaissanceBuying Books Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.” PeopleTryingWantedThreeTroubleOne DaySingingDollarsTrainSingersItalianMy SisterOperaButterflyShowersPearlsHarborsOpera SingersCoughing Author:Pat Cooper
“Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.” WritingDreamLanguageOne DayAmbitionItalianMy Ambition Author:Benedict Cumberbatch