The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. — Janet Flanner 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
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.” — Susan Straight 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
One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad? Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose? — Rumi Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales,… — Boris Pasternak 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
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
In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous,… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I passed, with careless… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy;… — Jacques Roumain 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
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
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer… — Leonard Cohen 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
The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. — Anonymous 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
I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My… — George Herbert 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 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
There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain. — David Gray Copy Share Image
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale… — Thomas Kibble Hervey Copy Share Image
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear… — John Milton Copy Share Image
No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
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