Nightingale Quotes

Nightingale Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

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

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

Last night the nightingale sat by my window and sang her joyous song of love...Though I loved it, my heart silently missed the beautiful song of your heart beat!

It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.

Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother.

Don’t be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds

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.

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause