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
You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth. — John Keats Copy Share Image
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“beauty—the beloved—brings into existence myriads of lovers (nightingales); every moment she contemplates herself through the eyes of these lovers, hearing them sing… — Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD Copy Share Image
Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“They found themselves striding into the herald's square of a place called Mercutio before they could discuss whether it was nightingales or… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago:… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ]. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? — Rumi Copy Share Image
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. .… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
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