Top 24 Quotes by Robert Mondavi

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.

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.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

We want to raise the art of living well.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

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.

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.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.