Nurse Quotes - Page 20

• Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
  Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
  And, even with something of a mother's mind,
  And no unworthy aim,
  The homely nurse doth all she can
  To make her foster child, her inmate man,
  Forget the glories he hath known
  And that imperial palace whence he came.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Children, Men

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.388

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• No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

  Prince

  Brother, Maturity, Animal

  Song: Animal Kingdom, Album: The Truth

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• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Teacher, Beach, Men

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

  Jack McDevitt

  Teacher, Numbers, Humanity

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Mother, Children, Silly

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• conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Baby, Moving, Rocks

  Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry (1945). “The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield”

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• There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a part-time registered nurse, a wife, and a mother when I began publishing. I'd taken no classes, had no experience, no knowledge of the publishing world, no agent, no contacts ... Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Mother, Taken, Writing

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• Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan of hot water and Epsom salts. When she gets into bed and the springs creak under her weight, she groans with the pleasure of lying stretched out on an object that understands her so well.

  William Maxwell

  Spring, Lying, Home

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two, you'll be as good as new, I hope." "You're just saying that because you heard Papa say it," I said. "No, I'm not!" Daisy said. "I'm saying it because I'm a nurse, and nurses are supposed to cheer up their patients." I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think of trying to argue her out of it. So I just groaned, closed my eyes, and sat there while

  Wilson Rawls

  Cheer, Eye, Nursing

  Wilson Rawls (2010). “Summer of the Monkeys”, p.143, Yearling

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• She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Mother, Thinking, Comforting

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.25, Jester House Publishing

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• The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life - the most amazing miracle of all - by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.

  Gene Veith

  Mother, Father, Military

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• And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?

  George Gissing

  Writing, Men, Broken

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

  Homer

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1704, eBookIt.com

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• A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

  James A. Michener

  Men, Two, Groups

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

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• His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice: he did the business well.(First verse of Died of Wounds)

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Voice, White, Rose

  Siegfried Sassoon, “Died Of Wounds”

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• Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.

  Jenny Downham

  Hair, Giving, Healthy

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• ...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Charity, Wonder, Young

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.196, Vintage

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• I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Thinking, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play”, p.1022, Simon and Schuster

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• It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

  Sherwood Anderson

  Physicians, Might, Too Much

  Sherwood Anderson (1983). “The teller's tales”

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• Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Husband, War, Home

  "Thud!".

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• Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

  John Green

  Morning, Feel Better, Sick

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.18, Penguin

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• Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Strong, Self

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.68

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• I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.

  William T. Vollmann

  Jobs, Book, Angel

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• You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Glasses, Doors, Cake

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.46, Vintage

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• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  Sarah Waters (2011). “The Night Watch”, p.114, Hachette UK

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