Florence Quotes

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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I had a crush Florence Henderson when I was younger, i would love to meet Marcia but I would prefer mom.

I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

You look extremely young, " said Miss Nightingale...."Age isn't really a matter of years, I find, " returned Phemie. "I know people twice my age who will never be as old as I am now.

Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.Winston Churchill

He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.