Nurse Quotes - Page 21

• I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate."His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon, Lady Rosalind, but I didn't have a nursemaid when I was three, so I certainly don't need one now. I'm perfectly capable of navigating an estate alone.""I'm sure you are - indeed, you demonstrated a remarkable proficiency for it last night, and in a strange house, too.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Night, House, Three

  Sabrina Jeffries (2009). “A Dangerous Love”, p.53, Mountaineers Books

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• Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.

  Trevor Howard

  Dream, Vision, Helping

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• Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Doctors, Training

  "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.

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• And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

  Lois Capps

  Example, Records, Medical

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• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Reality

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.4

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• In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives

  Bettina Skrzypczak

  Dream, Children, Inspiration

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• Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Men, Two

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• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Suicide, Lying

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• How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

  William Shakespeare

  Humble, Kissing, Scratches

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 2, l. 55

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• Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, School, Government

  Speech in the House of Commons, June 15, 1874.

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• My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

  Cat Cora

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Mother, Taken, Tea

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

  Jo Brand

  Stills

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• I am no warrior, but I am a ThunderClan cat. I stay in the nursery rather than hunt and fight because that is what I do best. I care for our young as though they were my own. This is my gift to the Clan, but I do it in my own chosen name.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Fighting, Warrior

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• I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.

  Ray Toro

  Noses, Pieces, Stuck

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• In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

  Diane Black

  Mother, College, Community

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• As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Eye, Two

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, Dirty, Flower

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• Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Struggle, Simplicity

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Tender is the Night”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Littles, Folly

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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• Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just that. It is like a collision of William Gaddis, M*A*S*H and The Beguiled. It is a Haiti I could never have imagined and will not soon forget. These nurses are crazy and I wish I knew them.

  Percival Everett

  Crazy, Wish, Haiti

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• She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

  Edna O'Brien

  Training, Calling, Christ

  Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking about it. Nursing had to be the place where nurturing and sweet milk and soft skin and mouths and warmth all came together and started to mean something about love. I had always assumed kissing was a learned thing, like waving bye-bye or speaking a language. But since Maxie, I'd decided that it was innate, the adult version of something we know to do from the moment we're born. All of it tied together in the cycle of life.

  Katherine Center

  Girl, Sweet, Mean

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• He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

  John Irving

  Self, Abortion, Way

  "The Cider House Rules". Book by John Irving, 1985.

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• Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

  Jim Butcher

  White, Dresses, Littles

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.141, Penguin Group

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