Coppini Florence Quotes

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity. ~ Florence King

Carlos had gotten up and gone to play with the cat. I asked its name and Florence said Salmon, and Carlos thought it was funny for a cat to have a fish name. ~ Adriana Lisboa

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo. ~ Florence Welch

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer. ~ Tyler Florence

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music. ~ Florence Welch

So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose
in a book?
Granny Rudin ~ Florence King

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!" ~ Florence Earle Coates

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free. ~ Florence Welch

Real feminism is spinsterhood. ~ Florence King

I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties. ~ Florence Welch

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair. ~ Florence Griffith Joyner

Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. ~ Florence Nightingale

I'm not a grownup, just a kid who has been around for a while. ~ Millie Florence

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service. ~ Florence Nightingale

I knew you were more than a quick fuck. When the alpha in me saw the alpha in you, he saw his mate. The second half of his soul. His equal. Seeing you in my bed, in my home, around my animals, I'm not just fighting to keep your body. I'm fighting to win your heart. To prove that I am the man you need. Your forever. ~ Jessica Florence

Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone. ~ Florence Nightingale

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. ~ Florence Littauer

That one with God is a majority. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in. ~ Mark Twain

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me. ~ Florence Welch

Florence had noticed one or two eccentricities in herself lately, which might be the result of hard work, or of age, or of living alone. When the letters came, for example, she often found herself wasting time in looking at the postmarks and wondering whoever they could be from, instead of opening them in a sensible manner and finding out at once. ~ Penelope Fitzgerald

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. ~ Florence King

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart. ~ Florence Welch

When I am scared, all my intentions are focused on survival and not on living to the fullest. Certainly, not on benevolence, not on being my best, not on becoming a better version of myself, not on loving myself or others.
Fear whispers "survive." Not "live. ~ Florence Witt

She was shocked by how dirty Florence was. ~ Christobel Kent

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances ~ Florence Scovel Shinn

She was my mother. Never before this had I looked at her and thought of her as someone separate, as someone else. Now, so near to her that I could smell the subtle scent of her perfume and see the clear, faint texture of her skin, I realized for the first time that I was looking at another human being who was complete within herself. She was my mother, but she was more than just a loving and convenient extension of me and my needs. ~ Florence Engel Randall

Woman has nothing but her affections,
and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. ~ Florence Nightingale

In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction. ~ Florence King

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening. ~ Florence Nightingale

Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing. ~ Florence Foster Jenkins

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

Florence Nightingale was never called "the Lady with the Lamp," but "the Lady with the Hammer," an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back home. Far from gliding about the hospital with her lamp aloft, Nightingale earned her nickname through a ferocious attack on a locked storeroom when a military commander refused to give her the medical supplies she needed. ~ Rosalind Miles

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea. ~ Florence Nightingale

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned. ~ Florence King