Nightingales Quotes
75 quotes by 57 authors
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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
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The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
— Janet Flanner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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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
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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
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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
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
— Epictetus
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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
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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
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Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk . .…
— Callimachus
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Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The…
— Hector Berlioz
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There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.
— David Gray
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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
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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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