A Quote by Gore Vidal

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal
American - Writer
October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.

Theodor Mommsen

In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.

Riccardo Tisci

Provence, just one relatively small part of France, is almost twice the size of Wales, with double the population. It's a region of the south that stretches from the borders of Monaco and Italy in the east to Hyeres in the west, the Alps in the north to the sparkling Mediterranean in the south.

Carol Drinkwater

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

Groucho Marx

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.

Matteo Renzi

When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.

Jan Mark

I've met my bride-to-be in Italy and I will be married in Italy soon, in a couple of weeks. In Venice of all places! In closing, I guess what I would like to say is to my bride-to-be, Amal, that I love you very much and I can't wait to be your husband.

George Clooney

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.

Nick Clegg

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

Romano Prodi

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

Tanith Lee

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

Stacey D'Erasmo

And I remember that about three years before that, her first record had come out. And I just remember really liking this one song off it called "In My Bed" and being a little bit enamored. This, you know, this young kind of Jewish girl from North London, you know, I have the same thing - from a Jewish family from North London - with this incredible voice.