(9 quotes found)
“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
“Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.”
Samuel Goldwyn
“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! / The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, / Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!”
Edward Fitzgerald
“Everyone goes back to Florence Nightingale and her lamp. That's not where nursing started.”
Jerry Lucas
“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
“O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray / Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still.”
John Milton
“Nightingale.”
Carole King
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