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
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
“Her statistics were more than a study... For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd… — Julian Fellowes 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
“How many bones did he set?" I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose.… — Franny Billingsley 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
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“She suddenly realizes that Bob, the probable cancer patient, is standing in the hallway looking lost. She stops and tries to look… — Tom Winter Copy Share Image
“I can’t tell you how much I love kissing ass. Especially wealthy, cellulose-stippled ass. But I’ll smile as big as a personified… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Little girls are the nicest things that can happen to people. They are born with a bit of angel-shine about them, and… — Alan Beck Copy Share Image
You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it.… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
The world before Christ was a world without hospitals, a world without charity, a world without respect for the sanctity of life.… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“I've been diagnosed as being bi-polar but so have Florence Nightingale and King David...which kinda leaves me in pretty dam good company...if… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks;… — Larry Gatlin Copy Share Image
Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The Nile has long nourished women and men alike. On the Nile and the magical, river-island Temple of Philae, Florence Nightingale was… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
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