Nurse Quotes - Page 23

• Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

  Anne Sexton

  Watches, Growing, Lilies

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Sleep, Together

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.123

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• Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

  Steven Amsterdam

  Book, Writing, Nursing

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Papa, Mama, Made

  Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “A Lady Never Surrenders”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Womb, Dare, Feels

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• It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Men, Doctors

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• Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

  Alexander Pope

  Solitude

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.295

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• It's going to get even worse if Hillary [Clinton] follows her plan that I describe in Reclaiming Our Children. But even now in many, many schools the nurses are giving out more drugs than were given out in children's mental hospitals when I was in training. You can go into a school today and find that ten or twenty percent of the boys are on drugs given by the school nurse. I just recently visited a school where over half of the children were being given drugs.

  Peter Breggin

  Children, School, Boys

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• I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

  Sophia Tolstaya

  Children, Wife, Pieces

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• If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!

  André Aciman

  Pain, Rip, Night

  "Call me by your name". Book by André Aciman, January 23, 2007.

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• We are talking about one of the greatest threats of all. But people can stand up to the school nurse; you can stand up to the teacher; you can stand up to the principal; you can stand up to them with the facts and the right books.

  Michael Savage

  Teacher, Book, School

  Source: whale.to

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• Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Teacher, People

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• It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.

  Betty Friedan

  School, College, Government

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.

  W. H. Auden

  Perseverance, Book, Believe

  "A Certain World: A Commonplace Book". Book by W. H. Auden, 1970.

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• See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Mother, Children, Passion

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

  Ken Kesey

  Country, Hurt, Home

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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• Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

  Philip Sidney

  Agony, Vices

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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• The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soul, Solitude

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.54

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• No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

  Anne Tyler

  Couple, Want, Buying

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

  C. S. Lewis

  Castles, Stories, Tables

  C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.

  Colleen Saidman

  Doctors, Broken, Needs

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, I saw a side of humanity I wish I'd remained blissfully ignorant of, including one driver who threw a bottle at me while I was walking my baby to the doctor on the side of the road and yelled out insults. Nurses who made nasty comments about how I should get a job (I was working two of them, in addition to being a published author). It wasn't that I didn't have a job and wasn't working. The jobs in backwoods Mississippi didn't pay enough to cover living expenses.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Jobs, Two

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Wall, Pay

  Source: time.com

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• How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

  Max Lucado

  Mom, Dad, Writing

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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