"Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale." — Samuel Goldwyn

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• To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine… — Elizabeth Blackwell
• If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times.… — Werner Herzog
• The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing… — 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… — William Christopher Handy
• Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already… — Alasdair Gray
• New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire… — Bernard DeVoto
• This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye… — 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… — 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

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