Nurse Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  Kate Smith

  Years, White, Dying

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• Read to your children all of the time
  Novels and nursery rhymes
  Autobiographies, even the newspaper
  It doesn't mater; it's quality time
  Because once upon a time
  We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told
  We need words to hold us and the world to behold us
  For us to truly know our souls

  Taylor Mali

  Children, Voice, Soul

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• Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

  Isaac Watts

  Life, House, Parent

  Isaac Watts (1802). “The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, D.D. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.60

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• I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

  Nina Jacobson

  Baby, Home, Painting

  "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.

  Judi Evans

  Jobs, Nursing, Practice

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• A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

  Katherine Catmull

  Summer, Children, Wall

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• ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Climate, Example, Done

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• This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought about that for a moment. "Of course, one could make the argument that you wouldn't be in this situation if not for me. But we're not going to dwell upon that.

  Julia Quinn

  Years, Lasts, Married

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.156, Harlequin

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• He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.

  Richard Yates

  Mean, Knowing, Way

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• But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

  Paula McLain

  Heart, Eye, Fabric

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

  John Redwood

  Teacher, Breathing, People

  "Tories promise to 'lift the weight of bureaucracy'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.

  Michael Arditti

  Pain, Smart, Believe

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• It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Reality, Facts

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads,
  I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt.
  LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt?
  I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain,
  Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name.
  I was to blame, my life never been the same.
  A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me.
  My classmate died, my other friend named Cory
  Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window,
  Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.

  Kool Keith

  Hurt, Pain, Rap

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• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Wings

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

  David Brin

  Selfish, Real, Book

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• O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

  Walter Scott

  Children, Land, Mountain

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 6, st. 1

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• I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

  Florence Nightingale

  Worthy, Deserve

  Florence Nightingale (2016). “Florence Nightingale to her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

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• Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

  Laurence Sterne

  Solitude, Loner

  Laurence Sterne (1840). “The Works ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.329

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• Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Solitude, Genius, Enthusiasm

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• The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dirty, Experience, Kind

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Last Tournament' (1859) l. 317

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• The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

  Jessica Lynch

  Return, Hospitals

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

  William C. Bryant

  Greatness, Difficulty

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• We still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others, and that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.

  Peter Sutherland

  Differences, Views, Unions

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