Nurse Quotes - Page 26

• Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Patient

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.34

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• It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

  Harriet Martineau

  Baby, Selfishness, Dies

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Teacher, Jobs, Communication

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• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  Maeve Binchy

  Mother, Fighting, Faces

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• As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.

  Wesley Eisold

  Teacher, Teenager, Lying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  War, Names, People

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• I was in total shock. I work so close [to home] that I figured I'd return to work and the baby nurse would bring the baby to me, and I'd run home periodically, and I'd make it work. But every two hours? That's a whole other level. I'll have to make a nursery at the office.

  Ivanka Trump

  Running, Baby, Home

  Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 16, 2011.

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• When 'Malcolm in the Middle' was over, I was looking for a drama more than a comedy...but if it was a comedy that came up, it would have to be as well-written as 'Malcolm' was, and it would have to be a different kind of character than I played on that show. That's harder to come by. In drama, there were more opportunities, more options for me, and when I read ('Breaking Bad'), it was just, 'Good night, Nurse! I'm going after this sucker!'

  Bryan Cranston

  Good Night, Drama, Character

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. November 13, 2009.

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• We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.

  Donald Glover

  Teacher, Kids, Writing

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• And isn't that weird? Think about this, when you're born, you nurse on your mama. And then you get a little older, you go to applesauce. And then you see these toddlers walking around with these Ziploc baggies full of Cheerios. Then you get to be my age, and the doctor wants you to start eating Cheerios to watch your cholesterol. Then you lose your teeth, you go to applesauce. I now know why old men like women with really big boobs. They see a trend. I mean, they call it a nursing home, hello.

  Bill Engvall

  Mean, Home, Nursing

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• I am big believer in breastfeeding. My oldest was breastfed for 9 months, my second for 6 months and I will try to nurse Kayla for 6 months. At the end of the day, it's a big sacrifice but you have healthier kids.

  Deborah Cox

  Kids, Sacrifice, The End Of The Day

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• ...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.

  Russell T Davies

  Running, Fun, Real

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• There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses were doing the doctor's job, and the doctors were doing the disease job, so no one was caring for the patient and the loved one.

  Donna Karan

  Jobs, Husband, Caring

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• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
  Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Learning, Years

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

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• I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Years, Sunrise

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• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Long

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• I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.

  Dean Winchester

  Hot, Dies, Hospitals

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• I didn't want just any career, so I am not going to be just any nurse.

  Denise Richards

  Careers, Want

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• How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

  Dick Morris

  Heart, Mean, Doctors

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