“There was a pleasantness to the air and a spirit about the town that did not come from its color, but from… — gail carriger Copy Share Image
As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city. — Gabriel Batistuta Copy Share Image
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp.… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
“Broke your jaw once before Spilt your blood upon the floor You broke my leg in return So let's sit back and… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Her thoughts went to Stefano Garini as if pulled by an elastic - whenever she didn't pay attention, they snapped back to… — Beate Boeker Copy Share Image
The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold. Hamilton was fascinated by it.… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran. — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
“It was almost Christmas, and Renzo was preparing all the delicacies Florentines must eat at the festival: roast eels, goose, fancy cakes… — Martine Bailey Copy Share Image
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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