Nurse Quotes - Page 15

• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

  James Madison

  War, President, Facts

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.452

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• For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Fire, Wrath

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.2636, Delphi Classics

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• O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Night, Black

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

  Naomi Judd

  Baby, Real, Ultrasounds

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• Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Good Times, Breeders

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.227

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• My ideas are a curse.
  They spring from a radical discontent
  with the awful order of things.
  I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
  I play witch.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Spring, Order

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sleep, Equality, Ties

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, 4th Of July, Men

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

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• Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mother, Children, Race

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.78, Springer

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• The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

  Francois Rabelais

  Christian, Religion, France

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• There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Health, Men

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Grace, Patriotism

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

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• Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Hope, Desire, Young

  Isaac Bickerstaffe (1791). “Love in a village: a comic opera”, p.1

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• We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Health, Exercise, Medicine

  "On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Ch. 2, 1969.

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• I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Opportunity, Different, Gone

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• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

  Henry Ford

  Leadership, Education, Wise

  "The Secret of Staying in Love". Book by John Powell, p. 85, 1990.

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• When I first met you, you were just an annoying novice nurse. But I found out that you saved my life and now you're my little sister. Isn't it funny.

  Kim Young-kwang

  Drama, Little Sister, Novices

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• Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one's fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Religious, Kindness, Heart

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• I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

  Clara Barton

  War, Sleep, Fighting

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

  Jim Harrison

  World, Woods, Used

  Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press

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• Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Hard Times, Years

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• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Miracle, Age, Infancy

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.304

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