Florence Nightingale Quotes

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Florence Nightingale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910

Topics

StruggleWorldStandDieNewWay

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out you can't see any stars living in the city. I studied some light-pollution maps, and knew I'd have to get out of San Antonio.

Jimmy Walker

StarsCityYouLivingSeeRocket

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

Joel Madden

Cell PhoneSingingSongPhoneNow

I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.

John David Washington

RejectedTimesGottenHundreds

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

John Fahey

GoodDeathMeThoughtBlindSay

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

John Lahr

LifeWorkSelfPageKnowWhy

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' every night?' I said, 'Oh my God if I have to sing these songs, if I have to sing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' one more night, I'm going to fall out.' Of course, I was young and I didn't understand.

Merry Clayton

GodMindNightRememberYouFall

But what shouldn't happen is, you shouldn't have the taxpayers from states that are managing their situations well paying for those states that are not.

John Thune

YouHappenWellThoseSituations

People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.

Robert Darnton

AgePeopleThinkMediaInformation

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

Ritchie Blackmore

YouCleanMessPlayingRecording

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Roger B. Taney

FearPowerMoneyCorruptionOpen

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.

Mickey Gilley

DayPeopleMeRestaurantHelpWell

I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.

Michelle Yeoh

LoveManPeopleMeFeelLove Me

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