Nurse Quotes - Page 11

• Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Lying, Giving, Perfect

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• I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.

  Lily Allen

  Thinking, Years, Doctors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Back up shall we? When my brother, the crazy chicken warrior, turned into a falcon and went up the pyramid’s chimney with his new friend, the fruit bat, he left me playing nurse to two very wounded people—which I didn’t appreciate, and which I wasn’t particularly good at.

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Crazy, Warrior

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

  Groucho Marx

  Too Late, Care, Matter

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• We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson this is for a young girl. If you're eating your curds and whey and a spider comes along, I don't think there's anything wrong with picking up a newspaper, smashing it, and going back to your breakfast.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Thinking, Missing

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.153, Granta Books

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• Take care, Jeffy. I’ll see you soon, right? Just remember not to throw food at the nurses. I don’t want to get any complaint calls, OK? Steven, I don’t throw food at…oh, that was a joke, right? Yup, buddy boy. It was a joke. But seriously, no kissing the nurses on the lips, either. It messes up their makeup. Eeeeeeewwwww!

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Kissing, Boys, Makeup

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.

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• (Wine is) the nurse of old age.

  Galen

  Wine, Age, Old Age

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• When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

  Jo Brand

  Dinner, Sometimes, Favourite

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• Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.

  Eoin Colfer

  Teacher, Falling In Love, Princess

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• ... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.

  Margo Kaufman

  Hands, Trying, Cost

  Margo Kaufman (1997). “This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America”, Dell Books

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• Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Attitude, Health, Commitment

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• No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.

  Francoise Gilot

  Thinking, Suffering, Unhappy

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• I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

  Eve Ensler

  Kindness, Nine, Details

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Self, Two

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• The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Tired, Identity

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Boys, Drawing

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• The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Silence, Deeds

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• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Lonely, Children

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• The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

  Kristen Stewart

  Baby, Night, Havens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?

  Susan Mallery

  Book, Grandmother, Doctors

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Sizzling”, p.71, Harlequin

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• It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.

  Graham Greene

  Dream, Doors, Dancer

  Graham Greene (1978). “Journey without maps”, Vintage

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• All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Running, Hands, Supernatural Forces

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.140, Penguin

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• I think she always nursed a small mad hope.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thinking, Mad

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.41, Vintage

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