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
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli… — Berthe Morisot 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
“Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“They look so relaxed, so happily engaged in the present moment, these four women drinking cappuccinos and savoring the creamy cannolis.” — Sophia Bar-Lev 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
My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like. — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity. — Timothy Garton Ash 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
What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence… — Daniel Radcliffe 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
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
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
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
“To say that Siena and Florence have always been competitive is an understatement. In medieval times, a statue of Venus stood on… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, Florence was increasingly becoming, for different reasons that not were not foreign to one another nor opposed – artistic and cultural… — Franco Cardini 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
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century… — John F. Kennedy 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
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike 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
After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
The architecture in Florence is light years ahead of anywhere I've ever been in terms of beauty and design. — Evan Mock Copy Share Image
Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew! — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
“The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.” — Ross King Copy Share Image
“Maybe he would not run away after all, even if exposed to all her family's idiosyncrasies. [Carlina's biggest fear about Stefano]” — Beate Boeker Copy Share Image
I do get star-struck, especially if they're icons like Florence Welch. I met her briefly at a studio and I did not… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills,… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. — Richard Rogers 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
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.” — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — Anonymous 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
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