“Everyone goes back to Florence Nightingale and her lamp. That's not where nursing started.”
Jerry Lucas
“The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago / Have long been breaking others.”
W. H. Auden
“Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.”
Walter de La Mare
“No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri”
William Wordsworth
“I am proud to have the endorsement of the Sensational Nightingales, and that would include Darrell Luster. I am proud of the fact that he is my black campaign manager.”
Freda Black
“Nightingale.”
Carole King
“Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.”
Samuel Goldwyn
