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Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy send you greetings.
— Hebrews 13:24
The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
— Mark Twain
I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.
— George Clooney
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
— Acts 18:2
A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.
— John Foxe
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.
— Acts 27:6
When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.
— Acts 27:1
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness.
— Mark Twain
No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.
— Victor Hugo
She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone.
— Virginia Woolf
Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale, sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence because he brought to mind all the pale, sad, sickly children in Italy that same night who needed haircuts and needed shoes and socks.
— Joseph Heller
Dan said the other day to the guide, Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
— Mark Twain