Nursing Quotes - Page 6

• I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.

  Lily Aldridge

  Daughter, Mother, Vegetables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Reality, Law

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.4

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• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  Randy Castillo

  Eye, Angel, Nurse

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• No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

  Florence Nightingale

  Horse, Men, Doctors

  Notes on Nursing (1860)

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  The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  Clara Barton

  Swings, Doors, Nurse

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• Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

  Warren Beatty

  Nurse, Sometimes, Great Nursing

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• Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

  Florence Nightingale

  Men, Doctors, Wish

  Florence Nightingale, Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (1990). “Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters”, p.210, Harvard University Press

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• There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

  Florence Nightingale

  Pain, Looks, Inspirational Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2001). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.91, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

  Florence Nightingale

  Light, Sick, Desire

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.48, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Home, Writing

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• Leave people better than you found them.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  People, Forgiving Heart, Inspirational Nurse

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Truth, Men

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.187, UPNE

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

  Louis Leakey

  Sleep, Animal, Care

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• Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.

  T. D. Jakes

  Home, Divorce, Prison

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• As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body hit the ground at 4 a.m. and obviously, for any new parent, that is the most horrifying thing that could happen, right? You're exhausted and you take your tiny little baby out and you put them on the bed to change diapers before nursing and you turn around and you discover... my baby can roll! And you think you're going to die.

  Uma Thurman

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Genius, Truth Is

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

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• I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Home, People, Missing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Art, Nurse, World

  Suzanne Gordon (2012). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.19, Cornell University Press

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• True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, People, Community

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• I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

  Florence Nightingale

  Vanity, Selfishness, Firsts

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 369), 1913.

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• We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.

  Florence Nightingale

  Medicine, Way, Principles

  "Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale".

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• I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

  Kay Granger

  Mother, Teacher, Teaching

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