Nursing Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.

  Judi Evans

  Jobs, Practice, Nurse

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• I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cat, Eye, Two

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• College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

  Diana Palmer

  Mother, Father, Math

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• Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

  John Cage

  Home, School, Nurse

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

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• Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two, you'll be as good as new, I hope." "You're just saying that because you heard Papa say it," I said. "No, I'm not!" Daisy said. "I'm saying it because I'm a nurse, and nurses are supposed to cheer up their patients." I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think of trying to argue her out of it. So I just groaned, closed my eyes, and sat there while

  Wilson Rawls

  Cheer, Eye, Thinking

  Wilson Rawls (2010). “Summer of the Monkeys”, p.143, Yearling

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• We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Night, Nurse

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• Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

  Steven Amsterdam

  Book, Writing, Years

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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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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• There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking about it. Nursing had to be the place where nurturing and sweet milk and soft skin and mouths and warmth all came together and started to mean something about love. I had always assumed kissing was a learned thing, like waving bye-bye or speaking a language. But since Maxie, I'd decided that it was innate, the adult version of something we know to do from the moment we're born. All of it tied together in the cycle of life.

  Katherine Center

  Girl, Sweet, Mean

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• For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.

  Christopher West

  Beautiful, Mother, Purity

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• People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

  Eric Hoffer

  Opportunity, People, Trying

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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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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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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• Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Baby, Trouble, Grows

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• In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

  Rowan Pelling

  Mother, Baby, Teenager

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• I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Father, Women, Done

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• The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

  Herman Melville

  Lonely, Stars, Memories

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.138, Velvet Element Books

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• Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

  James Lileks

  Death, Home, Long

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better.

  Florence Nightingale

  Use, Want

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

  Dennis Miller

  Inspirational, Children, Home

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• Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the great nurses out there!

  Rebecca Lim

  Drama, Opportunity, Dedication

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• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Shoes, Paris, Cities

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Prime, Ministers, Grievance

  "In his own words". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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