Nurse famous quotes

I did a little film called Nina, a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.
-- Alaina Huffman

#Girl #Play #Nurse

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
-- Alexander Pope

#Nurse #Solitude

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.
-- Alexandra Potter

#Men #Thinking #Nurse

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
-- Alfred the Great

#Men #Nurse #Despair

Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.
-- Alice Cooper

#Nurse #Catch Me

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.
-- Andrew Lansley

#Nurse #Pathways #Care

That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
-- Angela Carter

#Jobs #Real #Nurse

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.
-- Ann Brashares

#Names #Nurse #Saws

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
-- Ann Landers

#Life #Motivational #Nurse

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
-- Ann Richards

#Mother #Nurse #Expectations

One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.
-- Anna Holmes

#Children #Thinking #Nurse

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.
-- Antoine Predock

#Sacrifice #Blow #Nurse

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.
-- Anton du Beke

#Giving Up #Self #Nurse

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.
-- Aristotle Onassis

#Smart #Successful #Nurse

Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Teacher #Nurse #Heaven

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.
-- Barack Obama

#Heart #America #Nurse

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
-- Bernie Siegel

#Mistake #Doctors #Nurse

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
-- Billy Barty

#Thinking #Doctors #Nurse

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
-- Boyle Roche

#Disappointment #Nurse

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
-- Brooke Astor

#Jobs #War #Nurse

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.
-- Carl Sagan

#Play #Nurse #Long

The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.
-- Carolyn Jarvis

#Character #Nurse #Important

Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nurse’s outfit and give me a sponge bath?" asked Jace. "It was Simon who promised you the sponge bath." "As soon as I’m back on my feet, handsome," said Simon. "I knew we should have left you a rat.
-- Cassandra Clare

#Humor #Feet #Nurse

Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Sorry #Voice #Nurse

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Mother #Nurse #Grace

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.
-- Charlotte Charke

#Marriage #Uncles #Nurse

One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.
-- Chris Hadfield

#Space #Years #Nurse

Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.
-- Christine Bell

#Taken #Nursing #Nurse

They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first.
-- CJ Roberts

#Hurt #Nurse #Firsts

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

#Swings #Doors #Nurse

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

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Women #Home #Nurse

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
-- Confucius

#Nursing #Men #Nurse

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.
-- Coolio

#Girl #Flower #Nurse

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
-- Cotton Mather

#Nurse #Firsts #Combination

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
-- Courtney Milan

#Hands #Nurse #Heirs

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

#Nursing #Nurse #Important

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
-- Daniel Goleman

#Jobs #Feet #Nurse

Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room.
-- Daniel Handler

#Nurse #Way #Rooms

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Children #Believe #Nurse

You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying to make out with him," he suggested. How did he know that? "I was kissing him good-bye." He snorted and exchanged glances with the nurse. "That's not what it looked like to me." Probably not. But what happened? Could Reyes Farrow take control over me even from a freaking coma? I was doomed.
-- Darynda Jones

#Kissing #Bye #Nurse

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.
-- Dave Barry

#Years #Nurse #Stronger

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.
-- David Abrahamsen

#Frustration #Nurse #Violence

To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.
-- David Galula

#Military #Boys #Nurse

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.
-- Diane Black

#Mother #College #Nurse

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.
-- Dikembe Mutombo

#War #Doctors #Nurse

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#Character #Nurse #Essentials

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.
-- Edith Sitwell

#Nurse #Mad #Mind

Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.
-- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

#Life #Sleep #Nurse

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Medicine #Nurse #Kind

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
-- Elizabeth Kenny

#Nursing #Play #Nurse

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.
-- Elizabeth Kenny

#Sleep #Nurse #Community

I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.
-- Elizabeth Smart

#Memories #Nurse #Mouths

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.
-- Elizabeth von Arnim

#Mother #Thinking #Nurse

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Islands #Nurse #People

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
-- Emile Zola

#Fall #Men #Nurse

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.
-- Erin Cummings

#Mom #School #Nurse

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 #Nurse

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nurse #Important #Lessons

Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nursing #Years #Nurse

The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Two #Medicine #Nurse

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

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nurse

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nurse #Useless #May

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nurse #Worthy #Deserve

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nursing #Nurse #Patient

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
-- Florence Nightingale

#Nursing #Nurse #Patient

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
-- Francois Rabelais

#Christian #Nurse #Religion

I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection. Thinks I, "Aha, When I can talk I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection.
-- Frederick Locker-Lampson

#Men #Thinking #Nurse

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations
-- Fritz Kreisler

#Order #Nurse #Wife

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
-- Gary Lineker

#Teacher #Nurse #Tree

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.
-- George Ade

#Nurse #Cupid

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.
-- George Thorogood

#Nurse #Joy #Wonder

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
-- Georges Cuvier

#Discovery #Blood #Nurse

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.
-- Gerda Lerner

#Attitude #Nursing #Nurse

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.
-- Ginny Brown-Waite

#Doctors #Nurse #People

...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.
-- Guillermo del Toro

#Nurse #Leave Me Alone #May

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
-- H. G. Wells

#Eggs #Nurse #People

When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
-- Hani Furstenberg

#Summer #Growing Up #Nurse

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
-- Hannah Arendt

#Nurse #Support #Nursery

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.
-- Harriet Martineau

#Baby #Nurse #Selfishness

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.
-- Henry Williamson

#Mother #Ocean #Nurse

A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.
-- Herbert M. Shelton

#Nurse #Smoking #Physicians

Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century
-- Hildegard Peplau

#Nursing #Nurse #Progress

I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
-- Idris Elba

#Cousin #Talking #Nurse

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Hope #Nurse #Desire

There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
-- Jack McDevitt

#Teacher #Numbers #Nurse

I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!
-- Jacklyn Zeman

#Passion #Nurse #Dancing

She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.
-- Jacqueline Winspear

#Jobs #Helping Others #Nurse

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
-- James A. Michener

#Writing #Army #Nurse

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
-- James A. Michener

#Men #Two #Nurse

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.
-- James Whistler

#Class #Two #Nurse

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 #Nurse

Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!
-- Jane Siberry

#Kids #Nurse #Giving

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
-- Jean Cocteau

#Rose #Nurse #Poetry

Stop the nurse like the monkey.
-- Jeff Lindsay

#Nurse #Monkeys

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Nurse #Way #Wounds

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Play #Piano #Nurse

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Doors #Nurse #Rooms

I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.
-- Jennifer Saunders

#Jobs #Grieving #Nurse