Nurse Quotes - Page 25

• [Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Buttons, Letters, Privacy

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• We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Home

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• It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Believe, Doctors, People

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (2013). “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick”, p.16, PublicAffairs

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• anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Racism, Black, Novelists

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• I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Book, Fairy Tale

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

  Billy Barty

  Thinking, Doctors, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I loved the angiogram. They stick a thing in your thigh and it goes all the way up to your heart. Isn't that a thrill? Well, at least the nurse scored thigh.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Thrill, Way

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

  Wendell Berry

  Sheep, Barns, Lambs

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• We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you know, when these troops come home and they become veterans and they go back into the civilian community, they're not always going through the VA system for medical care. They're going to show up at community hospitals and clinics.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, Home, Community

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  Faye Wattleton

  Mother, Religious, Order

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• When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.

  Desmond Tutu

  Grudge

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.

  Michelle Singletary

  Home, School, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Angel, Gossip

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• Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Trouble, Cheerfulness

  Agatha Christie (1962). “Make Mine Murder: Including: Appointment with Death, Peril at the End House [and] Sad Cypress”

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• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  Quintilian

  Children, Firsts

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Age, Should

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.447

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• The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

  Richard Cecil

  Cheating, Lust, Infidelity

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.81

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• Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

  Charles Mackay

  Mother, Rain, Rivers

  Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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• Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Doctors, Punctuation, Born

  Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

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• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  Natalie Portman

  Mom, Teacher, Husband

  "The Late Show with David Letterman", www.oocities.org. November 24, 1994.

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• Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doctors, Tasks, Mass

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

  James M. Barrie

  Bird, Too Late, Darling

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.29, 谷月社

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• But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my stomach folded and how we tried to get Mickey to nurse and how about that time when the landlord said...but you said...and I cried, Jude. You knew me and had listened to the things I said in the night, and heard me in the bathroom and laughed at my raggedy girdle and I laughed too because I knew you too, Jude. So how could you leave me when you knew me?

  Toni Morrison

  Night, Hands, Years

  Toni Morrison (1973). “Sula: a Novel”

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• She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Darkness, Wish, Shadow

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