Nurse Quotes - Page 29

• The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

  Elbert Hubbard

  Nursing, Medicine, Kind

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• [Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

  Tim Burton

  Emotional, Thinking, Blue

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• The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

  Plato

  Plato, Spring, Hero

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.

  Michael Klaper

  Mother, Dog, Drinking

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• I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.

  Roz Chast

  Nursing, Past, Thinking

  "First Feed Birds, Then Procrastinate". Interview with Cara Buckley, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2009.

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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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• Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House

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• He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Humility, People

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Way To Live, Best Way, My Own

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.106, A&C Black

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• The heart that gives, gathers.

  Marianne Moore

  Life, Heart, Giving

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• I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. 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

  Brother, Fall, Men

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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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• "Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" "Actually, I think you misheard," Clary said. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," "I knew we should have left you a rat," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Humor, Should Have, Feet

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.

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• But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Winter, Names, Yellow

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• You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

  Paul McCartney

  Mother, Moving, Used

  "Roof climbing with Paul McCartney - a classic interview from the archives". Interview with Alan Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  Walter Scott

  Names, Tyrants, Liberty

  Walter Scott (2001). “Ivanhoe”, p.109, Classic Books Company

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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 write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder and a storyteller. I write also to become myself, more so day by day. Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

  Eppu Nuotio

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

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• Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

  Florence Nightingale

  Home, Opportunity, Civilization

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.218, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mother, Lonely, Teacher

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Food, Years

  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

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• ...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Leave Me Alone, Monsters, May

  Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2014). “The Strain: Part 1, Sections 1 to 6 inclusive”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Adversity

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• It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

  Jon Stewart

  Office, Balls, Playing Chess

  "Jon Stewart Gets Fed Up: Dems Set The Bar So Low They’re Tripping Over It" by Dan Abramson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2010.

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• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Medicine, Mind, Body

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