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• And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

  Terry Pratchett

  Growing Up, Book, Animal

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• Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula, so I'm proud to say we made

  Tina Fey

  School, Years, Fifteen

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Doors, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1066, Delphi Classics

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• Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Discovery, Blood

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• We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?

  Ann Widdecombe

  Jobs, Hunting, Order

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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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• Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

  Trisha Goddard

  Father, Way, Psychiatric

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• Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.

  Herman Melville

  Land, Sky, Cuba

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.555, Velvet Element Books

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• She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Helping Others, Support

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• Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.

  James Patterson

  Morning, Overcoming, Temperature

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?""You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Missing, Insane

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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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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• 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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• Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Two, Life Sucks, Humanity

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• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  Randy Castillo

  Eye, Angel, Nursing

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• Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Girl, Passion, Heart

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.256

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

  Richard Asher

  Science, Bed, Patient

  British Medical Journal 2: 697 (1947)

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• It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

  John Brown

  Suffering, Cases, Creatures

  Lancet I: 464 (1904)

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• Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, Fall, Writing

  Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

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• There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

  Robert Fortune

  Garden, Dozen, London

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.141

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• I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

  Amanda Harlech

  Art, Purple, Orange

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• Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie."Reynaud raised his eyebrows. "You did?""He did not," Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. "I threw him down the stairs."Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. "Not my recollection, but I can see how your memory of the event may've become hazy.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Memories, Eyebrows

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• In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Kind, Enjoy

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