Top 119 Florence Quotes & Sayings

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

Florence Nightingale. She is one of the most dynamic social entrepreneurs in history.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.

Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city.

I had a crush Florence Henderson when I was younger, i would love to meet Marcia but I would prefer mom.

I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did things like, we'd all go over to the Fort Belvedere in Florence and take that thing over. Because it's up for grabs, you can rent it. And then have New Age meetings and all that kind of stuff. [Buckminster] Fuller loved to go there.

I love Manchester, but I would like to have a getaway place in Florence.

My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

I remember touring the Medici palace in Florence when I was younger and I was entranced by the beauty and elegance of every space.

My role models were from track-and-field - Florence Griffith Joyner, Gail Devers.

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.

My husband is from Florence. And he has a 15th-century barn that is completely rustic and very 'Green Acres'-like.

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your mind.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

Originally, 'The Monster' started out as this indie, Florence And The Machine, tribal-y, almost Spanish-esque dance record.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!

What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don't have a career. That's my theory!

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.

I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

I'd like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris... there are so many artists and producers.

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

It was weird at Fiorentina, because I wouldn't sign a contract and commit, so they played somebody else. But I definitely think it was still a good move and living in Florence was probably one of the best times of my life.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London is the cultural metropolis of the early 21st century.

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.

I do get star-struck, especially if they're icons like Florence Welch. I met her briefly at a studio and I did not act cool.

Nabokov began writing 'Lolita' before he ever knew of Florence 'Sally' Horner, an 11-year-old who was kidnapped from Camden, New Jersey, in the summer of 1948.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

The main song I listened to with the 'Firebird' books was 'Breath of Life' by Florence + the Machine.

The only place I've ever been where people were as proud about their city as people are in Chicago is Florence, Italy, where I lived for three years.

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.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.