Nightingales Quotes - Page 5

• In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Twilight, Garden, Singing

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• The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

  Richard Selzer

  Heart, Cages, Theater

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• You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

  Rumi

  Rose, May, Feels

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• In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.

  Megan Chance

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

  Megan Chance

  Writing, Years, Ideas

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

  Megan Chance

  Walks

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• In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.

  Megan Chance

  Book, Reading, Ordinary

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.

  Megan Chance

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

  Megan Chance

  Hero, Important, Stories

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

  Megan Chance

  Brave, Resistance, Forgotten

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Neruda had his first dream,
  First meeting with the Moon and the Sun
  In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart,
  Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Dream, Heart, Moon

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• If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

  Epictetus

  Swans, Roles, Praise

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• We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.

  Bob Proctor

  Sports, Fall, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 05, 2011

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• Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

  Immanuel Kant

  Song, Men, Mimicry

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• Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.

  Jacques Roumain

  Rain, Angel, Blow

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• Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
  Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
  There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
  The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
  The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
  The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
  The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
  The playful children just let loose from school;
  The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
  And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
  These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
  And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Sweet, Children

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

  Callimachus

  Art, Lying, Long Ago

  Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

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• Elvis Presley once said that I don't know anything about the music. It is because he is the music itself! The nightingales don't know anything about the music!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Said, Knows

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• For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

  David Cannadine

  Compassion, Self, Florence Nightingale

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• Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.

  Susan Kay

  Flower, Night, Two

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• 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.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florida, Florence Nightingale

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• Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn`t learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

  Steve King

  Passion, Something New, Turns

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• He stood beside a cottage lone
  And listened to a lute,
  One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
  And the nightingale was mute.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Summer, Gone, Cottages

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1830). “The Devil's progress, a poem, by the editor of the 'Court journal'.”, p.50

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• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Song, Italian, Night

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• Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Dream, Eagles

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