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Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. -- Elizabeth Kenny
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. -- Dag Hammarskjold
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. -- Warren Beatty
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. -- Clara Barton
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
There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating. -- Peter Facinelli
Caring is the essence of nursing. -- Jean Watson
Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter. -- Alice Cooper
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse -- Hilaire Belloc
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him. -- Joseph Heller
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse. -- Florence Nightingale
I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region. -- Rainbow Rowell
Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. -- Bob Dylan
All right, big guy, down you go." Oh,yeah. Bed. Bed was good. "And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous. -- J.R. Ward
"Girl, are you on medication?" Nurse Debra asked."No, of course not," Madison answered impatiently."Maybe you should be," Debra muttered. -- Kerrelyn Sparks
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches -- Georges Cuvier
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. -- W. H. Auden
Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all. -- Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne -- Neal Shusterman
And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett -- Tea Leoni
Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in." -- Henny Youngman
How could Hillary clinton not come off as human! I mean, even Nurse Ratched was human. I don't think people are interested in 30 years of the past, and I don't get this notion of change-maker. -- Rush Limbaugh
There was a rare quality about Nurse Grace's smile. It was the knowledge that sooner or later her smile would inspire some witty observer to say something around the lines of, Every time you do this, an angel farts. -- Sorin Suciu
In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the virtues, Destroyer of vice, Liberator of souls, Guide to true happiness, she is called Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman. -- Pope Pius IX
Um, Dr. Alexander, there's a couple out here who say they're related to you. They"um"they're biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we're okay so we can come and ooh and aah over the babies. (Eros) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come. -- Malorie Blackman
He who angers you conquers you. -- Elizabeth Kenny
Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. -- Confucius
God who sends the wound sends the medicine. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -- Benjamin Franklin
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse. -- Warren Beatty
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. -- Clara Barton
I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and I'm really fantastic about diagnosing things. -- Jill Flint
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. -- Florence Nightingale
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. -- Florence Nightingale
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. -- Harold Pinter
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. -- William Osler
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. -- Kate Smith
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse. -- Finley Peter Dunne
After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant. -- Bill Dedman
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work. -- Paul McCartney
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. -- John Dryden
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. -- Myrtle Aydelotte
In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. -- Mehmet Oz
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. -- Kate Adie
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops. -- Antoine Predock
As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health. -- Richard Carmona
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. -- Bill Frist
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse. -- Wale
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. -- Ornette Coleman
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
My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her. -- Susanne Bier
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
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
I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since. -- Hillary Scott
As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control. -- Jo Brand
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. -- Cat Cora
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country. -- Jimmy Carter
When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted. -- Alan King
Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin. -- Edmund Spenser
Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse. -- John Milton
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. -- Josh Billings
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense! -- Alexander Pope
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice. -- Samuel Daniel
The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. -- Richard Cecil
Difficulty is the nurse of greatness. -- William C. Bryant
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. -- Boyle Roche
Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. -- William Shakespeare
Temperance is the nurse of chastity. -- William Wycherley
Hope! thou nurse of young desire. -- Isaac Bickerstaffe
Stop the nurse like the monkey. -- Jeff Lindsay
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. -- Laurence Sterne
Vice is but a nurse of agonies. -- Philip Sidney
Frustration is the wet nurse of violence -- David Abrahansen
(Wine is) the nurse of old age. -- Galen
Frustration is the wet nurse of violence. -- David Abrahamsen
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude. -- James Russell Lowell
Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience. -- John Keats
Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer. -- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives. -- Nicholas Lea
Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. -- William Shakespeare
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you. -- P. D. James
Everyone in my family is a nurse except me. -- Marisa Miller
The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement -- James Madison
Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room. -- Daniel Handler
Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence. -- B.G. Bowers
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. -- William Blake
To Wordsworth nature was the nurse; to us, it's the patient. -- Robert Hillman
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Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. -- Friedrich Schiller
After two days in the hospital, I turn to the nurse. -- W. C. Fields
O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse. -- Elizabeth Kenny
It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies. -- Harriet Martineau
For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha. -- Ann Brashares
One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother. -- Publilius Syrus
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter. -- Sophocles
When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health. -- Desmond Tutu
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court. -- Francois Rabelais
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It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. -- Susanna Kaysen
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs. -- William Cowper
You're pissed I laid it out and you're gonna go nurse your snit -- Kristen Ashley
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse. -- May Sinclair
Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin. -- Charles Spurgeon
Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health. -- William C. Bryant
Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests. -- Sri Aurobindo
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. -- Owen Feltham
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary. -- Mamie Van Doren
Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system. -- Trisha Goddard
My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics. -- Matthew William Goode
My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics. -- Matthew William Goode
The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses. -- Carolyn Jarvis

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