Nurse Quotes - Page 28

• The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Stress, Men

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• You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Remember

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• Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baseball, Giving Up, Mean

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• And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.

  Malorie Blackman

  Taken, Looks, Gone

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  Harold Pinter

  Death, Cancer, Cells

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

  Thomas Brooks

  Humility, Grace, Champion

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.30

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• Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  "Bill Gates on Robots" by Peter Hoare, www.askmen.com.

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• I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

  Shannon Hale

  Stars, Thinking, Wings

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.173, A&C Black

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• If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

  Emily Post

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  "Etiquette: "The Blue Book of Social Usage"".

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• The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Soul, Wickedness

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• Um, Dr. Alexander, there’s a couple out here who say they’re related to you. They…um…they’re biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we’re okay so we can come and ooh and aah over the babies. (Eros)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Couple, People

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• I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hero, Nursing, World

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• Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Wisdom, Children

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• For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

  Ann Brashares

  Names, Saws, Firsts

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.111, Random House

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• I was taken to an examining room where a big butch nurse practitioner came in and asked me if I was pregnant. “No way!” Was I sexually active? “Nope!” Had I ever been molested? “Well,” I said, trying to make a joke, “Oprah says the only answers to that question are ‘Yes’ and ‘I don’t remember.’ ” I laughed. We were having fun. The nurse looked at me, concerned/annoyed.

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Taken, Annoyed

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• My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)

  Cassandra Clare

  Cities, Bones, Jace

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• Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Nursing, Doctors

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.894, Simon and Schuster

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• What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.

  Lynda Barry

  Mother, Heart, Feet

  Lynda Barry (2001). “Cruddy: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Feet, Fields

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• Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Dry

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• Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Grace, Holiness

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

  P. D. James

  Writing, Publishers, Sells

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• Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Patient, Illness

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.17, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life Is Too Short, Mountain, May

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• Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.

  Brigham Young

  Strong, Kindness, Compassion

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