Nurse Quotes - Page 7

• I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

  Groucho Marx

  Too Late, Care, Matter

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• We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson this is for a young girl. If you're eating your curds and whey and a spider comes along, I don't think there's anything wrong with picking up a newspaper, smashing it, and going back to your breakfast.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Thinking, Missing

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.153, Granta Books

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• Take care, Jeffy. I’ll see you soon, right? Just remember not to throw food at the nurses. I don’t want to get any complaint calls, OK? Steven, I don’t throw food at…oh, that was a joke, right? Yup, buddy boy. It was a joke. But seriously, no kissing the nurses on the lips, either. It messes up their makeup. Eeeeeeewwwww!

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Kissing, Boys, Makeup

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.

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• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Miracle, Age, Infancy

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.304

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• Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Two, Life Sucks, Humanity

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• That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, 4th Of July, Men

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor nurse. "Yes. Absolutely. I'll be right back." [...] "Thanks," I mumbled. "I'll just change here. He's not looking at anything at the moment." I gestured toward Sam, who was looking convincingly sedated. The nurse vanished through the curtains. Sam eye's flashed open again, distinctly amused. He whispered, "Did you just tell that man you went potty on yourself?" "You.Shut.UP." I hissed back furiously.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Flower, Voice, Office

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done. "That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Taken, Breathing, Rooms

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.171, St. Martin's Press

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• I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

  Julia Glass

  Rain, Joy, Solitude

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

  Terry Pratchett

  Tea, Dying, Watches

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Medicine, Want

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• Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

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• The pretty nurse had just injected her with something that totally rocked, and if she wanted to think about boinking a bronzed, tattooed, impossibly handsome doctor who was so far out of her league she need a telescope to see him, then screw it. Screw him. Over and over.

  Larissa Ione

  Thinking, Doctors, League

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• I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Jobs, Fire, Hands

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.220, Macmillan

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• A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said.

  Jamie Ford

  Beautiful, Air, Chinese

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• One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

  Thomas Sowell

  Dream, Real, War

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about it. Teat Nazis are a solely western upper-middle-class phenomenon occurring when highly ambitious women experience deprivation from outside modes of achievement.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Hard Times, Years

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• The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

  Jim Harrison

  World, Woods, Used

  Jim Harrison (2012). “Songs of Unreason”, p.7, Copper Canyon Press

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• He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Biblical, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6722, Delphi Classics

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• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  Randy Castillo

  Eye, Angel, Nursing

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• War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

  James Madison

  War, President, Facts

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.452

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• It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

  Louise Hay

  Mistake, Learning, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 25, 2013

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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