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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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• She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

  Sarah Dessen

  Father, Hands, Years

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.32, Penguin

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying to make out with him," he suggested. How did he know that? "I was kissing him good-bye." He snorted and exchanged glances with the nurse. "That's not what it looked like to me." Probably not. But what happened? Could Reyes Farrow take control over me even from a freaking coma? I was doomed.

  Darynda Jones

  Kissing, Bye, Trying

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.211, St. Martin's Press

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• I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Men, Looks, May

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.317, Ballantine Books

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• All right, big guy, down you go." Oh,yeah. Bed. Bed was good. "And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous.

  J.R. Ward

  Guy, Bed, Looks

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.677, Penguin

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

  R.L. LaFevers

  Remember

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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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• Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• 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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• The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Two, Medicine

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• America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Nursing, America

  "Obama's Remarks to the American Nurses Association". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 16, 2010.

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• No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

  George Orwell

  Men, Thinking, Doctors

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Sophocles

  Evil, Soul, Wickedness

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• my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

  Charlotte Charke

  Marriage, Uncles, Brain

  Mary Robinson, Charlotte Charke (1830). “Memoirs”

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Dream, Spring

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mother, Prayer, Cutting

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• I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiring, Weight Loss, Years

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

  P. D. James

  Writing, Publishers, Sells

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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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