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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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• All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences that you show me, I can find no beauty, for I see death in every clause and every word. There is a fossil or a mummy character which pervades this book. The best sepulchers, the vastest catacombs, Thebes and Cairo, Pyramids, are sepulchers to me. I like gardens and nurseries. Give me initiative, spermatic, prophesying, man-making words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.

  Lamar Hunt

  Years, Games, Nfl

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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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• 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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• 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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• My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

  Nicholas Lea

  Sister, People, My Sister

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of places—having to hire people from somewhere else.

  Marion Barry

  Teacher, Somewhere Else, People

  "Marion Barry's remarks on Filipino nurses draw criticism" by Jummy Olabanji, wjla.com. April 24, 2012.

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• A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Smoking, Poison, Soft Drinks

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• Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

  Owen Feltham

  Friendship, Promise, May

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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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• 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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• Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

  Georg Brandes

  Brother, Real, Taken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century

  Hildegard Peplau

  Nursing, Progress, Borders

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• Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Life, Sleep, Care

  "To his Mistress for her True Picture". Line 11,

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• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And 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 impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Dark, Moon

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

  Art Linkletter

  Time, War, Failure

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• Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.

  Christine Bell

  Taken, Nursing, Important

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• I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Army, Lovely

  "Tales of the South Pacific". Book by James A. Michener, 1947.

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• I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Dark, Thinking

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• I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

  Tre Cool

  Song, Rhyming, Alphabet

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• MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Animal, Female

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.161, University of Georgia Press

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• A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Real, Long

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