Nursing Quotes - Page 10

• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

  Florence Nightingale

  Opportunity, Nurse, Mustard

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling soft and I was nursing, but it was a character I'd never played before. That was a Paul Schrader script, with an up-and-coming Mexican director, named Alfonso Ulloa. That has Tim Roth and Paz Vega in it, and I enjoyed that, as well.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Character, Independent, Vegas

  Source: collider.com

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• My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

  Erykah Badu

  Home, Passing On, People

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.

  Erykah Badu

  Home, Elderly, Piano

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding.

  Doug Stanhope

  Lying, Home, Years

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• Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

  Ernest Hollings

  Home, Said, Senate

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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, Men

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• Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

  Florence Nightingale

  Civilization, Stage, Hospitals

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well.

  Christopher Titus

  Country, Home, Views

  "Grandma Titus". "Titus" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  Bram Stoker

  Sweet, Art, Pain

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• God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Queens, Church

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

  Robert Kuttner

  Home, Class, People

  "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.

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• The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Mother, Culture, States

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• People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

  John Darnielle

  Expression, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My greatest achievement would be my nursing degree and my dream job that followed. I worked so hard to get where I am now, and I wouldn't imagine doing anything else.

  Nikki Ferrell

  Dream, Jobs, Achievement

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• ... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.

  Orlando Rodriguez

  Daughter, Revenge, Son

  "Readings from Howard Zinn’s 'Voices of a People’s History of the United States'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 20, 2006.

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• When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.

  Eartha Kitt

  Baby, Children, Care

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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Grandchildren

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• The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Senior, Hipster, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

  John Darnielle

  Giving Up, People, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for the benefit of others. I always marvel at what an indelible and honorable contribution she has made and hope to be able to make a similar impact over the course of my life and career.

  Ian Anthony Dale

  Mother, Passion, Years

  "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: On ​​Being Stereotyped, ​​His Deep-Fried Childhood, and Letting Failure Make You Stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world orders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Home, Order

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• There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Dark, Men

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Peace, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

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