Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
nursing tea get-better
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.
world doe moral
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
nursing light sick
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
nursing light air
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
suffering doctrine god-love
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
party mean nursing
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
death morning men
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
want moral states
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
nursing opportunity nurse
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
night praying drink
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
names remember
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
might christ complainers
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
average want habit
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
home wind law
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?