Florence Nightingale Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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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
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Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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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
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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
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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
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You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole,…
— Stella Gibbons
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People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.
— Franny Billingsley
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Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in…
— Sharon Lawrence
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By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
— Stacy Schiff
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The world before Christ was a world without hospitals, a world without charity, a world without respect for the sanctity of life. Hospitals were an…
— Glen Rambharack
Who Wrote These Florence Nightingale Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Florence Nightingale Quotes as follows: