Nightingales Quotes

75 quotes by 57 authors

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing,… — James Belushi
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. — Janet Flanner
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their… — John Milton
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. — Ambrose Bierce
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you. — Leonard Cohen
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
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life… — Helen Keller
Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale. — Samuel Goldwyn
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses… — Alexander Smith
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of… — John Keats
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. — Epictetus
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for… — Colleen McCullough
Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . .… — Callimachus
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The… — Hector Berlioz
There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain. — David Gray
Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn`t learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his… — Steve King
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against… — David Bronstein

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