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  • My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home. -- Rickie Lee Jones
  • Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home. -- Steven Wright
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. -- Atom Egoyan
  • My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later. -- Douglas Preston
  • The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home. -- Alice Munro
  • Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate. -- Ernest Hollings
  • Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. -- John Cage
  • I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. -- Florence King
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100. -- Beeban Kidron
  • I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records. -- Imelda May
  • Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you. -- T. D. Jakes
  • My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing. -- Erykah Badu
  • My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me. -- Kim Edwards
  • The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing. -- Jake Shimabukuro
  • I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl. -- LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
  • Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo. -- Abigail Washburn
  • They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day. -- Erykah Badu
  • Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians of our country's history. Unfortunately, in America, we, you know, lock those elders away out of view in nursing homes and go about our little lives. It's a great national shame and an irredeemable tragedy. Oh well. -- Christopher Titus
  • They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding. -- Doug Stanhope
  • Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family. -- Ben Stein
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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