Nursing Quotes - Page 7

• There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.

  Anne Enright

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

  Tori Amos

  Daughter, Whales, Months

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• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

  Success, Past, Nurse

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• Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

  Jo Brand

  Believe, Suffering, Doe

  "'Cold' nurses are an easy target - blame rotten NHS management" by Jo Brand, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

  Jo Brand

  Practice, Nurse, Culture

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• The first wealth is health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Fitness, Yoga

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.972, Library of America

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• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, God, Past

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Strength

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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• Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

  Charles Stanley

  Mom, Baby, Teenager

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• Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

  Steven Wright

  Children, Nice, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Smart, School, Nurse

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Hate, Nurse

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• I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hero, Nurse, World

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• There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to serve their families and community. So, too, many in the military or in nursing or teaching. As the needs are endless, so are the possibilities of service. Now, more than ever, empowered by the Internet, more of us can serve in more ways than ever before in history.

  James M Strock

  Military, Teaching, Thinking

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• Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

  Anthony Trollope

  Mother, Nurse, Giving

  Anthony Trollope (1866). “Doctor Thorne. A Novel. 9th Ed”, p.27

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• Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Breastfeeding, Doe, Looks

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• Peace is a nursing mother to the land.

  Hesiod

  Mother, Peace, Land

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• May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

  Florence Nightingale

  Joy, Leader, Reform

  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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• They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.

  Emilie Schindler

  Book, Hands, Nurse

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• When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Clothes, Breastfeeding

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• Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Progressive, Backwards

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• A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

  David Suzuki

  Mother, Baby, Breastfeeding

  David Suzuki (1995). “Time to Change”, Stoddart Pub

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• Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted,
  spite of ugly looks and threats,
  And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Art, Sight, Looks

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.85

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