Quotes by Robert Mondavi

• Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.
• I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
• How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
• Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.
• Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
• Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.
• As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.
• I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
• Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
• If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
• My wife taught me the importance of living well.
• We definitely need to get the excitement back.
• My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.
• My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.
• Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.
• There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.
• It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.
• This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.
• I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.
• I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
• I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.
• We want to raise the art of living well.
• Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.
• Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.