Florence Quotes

46 Florence quotes by 44 unique authors

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. — Elizabeth Blackwell
Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale. — Samuel Goldwyn
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth… — Werner Herzog
The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking… — Andy Warhol
I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran. — Wilma Rudolph
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself. — Roberto Cavalli
Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town,… — William Christopher Handy
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels,… — Alasdair Gray
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted… — Bernard DeVoto
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the… — Mark Twain
I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot… — George du Maurier
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. — Henry James
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home. — Hilary Mantel
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept… — Sam Kean
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity. — Timothy Garton Ash
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded… — Charles Dickens
Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard… — Clive James
A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione… — James Fenton
Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever… — William Butler Yeats
I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a… — Denis Healey
I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's… — Berthe Morisot
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love… — Joyce Maynard
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree. — Donatella Versace

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