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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. -- Charlotte Bronte
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. -- Florence Nightingale
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. -- Honore de Balzac
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work. -- Florence Nightingale
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
Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference. -- Brittney Wilson
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen. -- Steven Amsterdam
Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath. -- Desmond Tutu
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns -- Robert Burns
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. -- Florence Nightingale
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease ..... -- Monica Dickens
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
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent. -- Gertrude Atherton
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
Caring is the essence of nursing. -- Jean Watson
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. -- Confucius
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. -- Elizabeth Kenny
I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy. -- Emo Philips
Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home. -- Steven Wright
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. -- Florence Nightingale
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom. -- Giacomo Casanova
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. -- T. D. Jakes
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing. -- Louis Leakey
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. -- Dag Hammarskjold
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. -- Florence Nightingale
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. -- Florence King
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. -- Jon Porter
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
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. -- Peter Singer
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
Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes. -- Billy Graham
Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home. -- David Mixner
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. -- Florence Nightingale
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
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea. -- Florence Nightingale
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them. -- Marvin J. Ashton
I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others. -- Debby Ryan
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system. -- Nathan Deal
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. -- Russell Baker
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
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor. -- Richard Dawkins
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. -- Florence Nightingale
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. -- Dee Dee Myers
When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner. -- Sheri Fink
There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes. -- Jo Brand
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood. -- Barry Marshall
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. -- Jill Lepore
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
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things. -- Morag Joss
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 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. -- Joyce Maynard
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these. -- Florence Nightingale
I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. -- Margaret Fuller
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. -- Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland
Peace is a nursing mother to the land. -- Hesiod
It (nursing) comes more from care than study. -- Johanna Spyri
The state is the nursing mother of human culture. -- Joseph Alexander Leighton
I use the word nursing for want of a better. -- Florence Nightingale
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing. -- Douglas William Jerrold
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard -- Kate Hudson
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard. -- Kate Hudson
My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home. -- Rickie Lee Jones
Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate. -- Ernest Hollings
Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing. -- Debra Messing
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing. -- Debra Messing
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy. -- Michel de Montaigne
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance. -- Kenneth Clarke
It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing. -- Joseph Conrad
A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature. -- David Suzuki
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing. -- Michael N. Castle
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church... -- John Calvin
Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. -- John Cage
I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer. -- Liza Campbell
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. -- Tori Amos
We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals. -- Michelle Obama
Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching. -- Sander Levin
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing. -- Florence Nightingale
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
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative. -- John Darnielle
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
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. -- Isaac Asimov
33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. -- Jarod Kintz
There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them. -- Jeff Merkley
Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe. -- Jo Brand
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
The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less. -- Ed Rendell
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
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private. -- Michel de Montaigne
Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear. -- John Darnielle
When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child. -- Charisse Montgomery
I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts. -- Marilynne Robinson
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
I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong. -- Shiloh Walker
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
I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches. -- Ida B. Wells
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
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
I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start. -- Roz Chast
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. -- J. G. Ballard
As Congress focuses on comprehensive health care reform, one thing needs to be clear: We cannot fix health care if we do not address America's nursing shortage. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? -- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives. -- Atul Gawande
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead. -- George Bernard Shaw
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life. -- Thomas Friedman
Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible. -- Charisse Montgomery
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff. -- Rick Renzi
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
My greatest achievement would be my nursing degree and my dream job that followed. I worked so hard to get where I am now, and I wouldn't imagine doing anything else. -- Nikki Ferrell
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
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party. -- Florence Nightingale
I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table. -- Christina Applegate
The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care. -- Charisse Montgomery
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty. -- Joseph Joubert

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