Nurse Quotes

#1. I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. - Author: Paul Nurse

#2. Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. - Author: William S. Burroughs

#3. Her sickness came from the water," the nurse explained. "She should drink only good clean water. If the water is dirty, you should boil it for a count of two hundred before she drinks - Author: Linda Sue Park

#4. 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. - Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim

#5. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence. - Author: John Davies Of Hereford

#6. As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.
Let her be strong.
Let her be sly.
And let her be ugly. - Author: Kiersten White

#7. Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse ... I've seen ultrasounds ... you know that those babies are real. - Author: Naomi Judd

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

#9. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room. - Author: Florence Nightingale

#10. Diane Harper had been sneakily copying, and was making a nurse costume, too, but being Diane, it turned out looking more like a Playboy Bunny without the ears. Alison's, however, was beautiful. - Author: Robin Klein

#11. Nurse, if she didn't have more money than any person ought to have, you might be tempted to call it senile dementia. As it is, she is in for a rest and a check-up. - Author: Robert A. Heinlein

#12. I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along.
I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage. - Author: Ken Kesey

#13. And nails done, right after she visited the school nurse, - Author: Rachel Renee Russell

#14. Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency. - Author: Lee Daniels

#15. After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967. - Author: Paul Nurse

#16. Nurse: "You look like a pharmaceutical rep. you can leave samples in the closet."
Joe: "I'm actually a lawyer."
Nurse: "My condolences. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#17. This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken. - Author: Paul Nurse

#18. Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. - Author: Spike Milligan

#19. Stop the nurse like the monkey. - Author: Jeff Lindsay

#20. 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. - Author: James A. Michener

#21. Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them. - Author: Plutarch

#22. We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. - Author: Marcel Proust

#23. My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives. - Author: Nicholas Lea

#24. Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health. - Author: William C. Bryant

#25. Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you. - Author: P.D. James

#26. My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order. - Author: Faye Wattleton

#27. I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region. - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#28. There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers - Author: Lindsey Graham

#29. October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace! - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#30. One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty. - Author: John Ruskin

#31. The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book. - Author: Dorothy Parker

#32. MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#33. Nurse your grief, don't spill a drop of it, because it'll help you to reach your zenith, some day. - Author: Lara Biyuts

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

#35. I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary. - Author: Mamie Van Doren

#36. Fred!" the nurse said, though they had never met. "How are we today?" Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you? - Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

#37. Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls. - Author: Victor Hugo

#38. If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life - this is also 'playing' the game! - Author: Emily Post

#39. The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant, the knowledge and confidence of the young mother, and a voice for those too weak to speak. - Author: Virginia Henderson

#40. I didn't want just any career, so I am not going to be just any nurse. - Author: Denise Richards

#41. Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. - Author: Paul Nurse

#42. Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#43. We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells. - Author: Victoria Lincoln

#44. I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. - Author: Paul Nurse

#45. Let's start simple - what's your verb?" Carl asks. "What do you mean, my verb?" "A nurse nurses, teachers teach and preachers preach. If you could only choose one verb to describe what you do best, what is it? - Author: Ian Bull

#46. It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. - Author: Paul Nurse

#47. After several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer. - Author: Kate Smith

#48. The Nurse
Practitioner and an issue of The American Journal for Nurse
Practitioners present a summary of each state's practice
acts as they relate to titling, roles, and prescriptive authority. As of January 2009 (Pearson, 2009; Phillips, 2009), - Author: Teri Moser Woo

#49. My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse. - Author: Jack Bunbury

#50. Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith - Author: Gautama Buddha

#51. For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it. - Author: Plutarch

#52. A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows. - Author: George Bernard Shaw

#53. He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out. - Author: David Berman

#54. Two live grenades that nearly detonated each other. Wave the white flag and count your dead. The war is over. Nurse the wounded and heal your cuts. Write down the memories and tell the tales in later years when you can see the good with the bad. - Author: Kate Monahan

#55. Compulsion, guilt, pick your poison.' Meaty shrugged. 'You make a better nurse than a patient. - Author: Cassie Alexander

#56. O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! - Author: William Shakespeare

#57. When I first met you, you were just an annoying novice nurse. But I found out that you saved my life and now you're my little sister. Isn't it funny. - Author: Kim Young-kwang

#58. And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse. - Author: Jo Brand

#59. When the smell of her perfume, something that reminded him of faint spicy blossoms and spring, wasn't wreathed in a cloud around him.
Maybe it was magic. Was she one of the creatures from the many Scottish tales his nurse had told him as a child? - Author: Karen Ranney

#60. A sound startled him, and to his everlasting irritation, his body jerked. The nurse was standing at the foot of the bed. Did they all have to creep around? He was going to insist bells be sewn onto everyone's clothes so he was aware of them approaching. - Author: Lorraine Heath

#61. Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember - my dad is also an actor and a director and a storyteller who lives and works in the Twin Cities; my mom is a nurse practitioner, but she also grew up doing theatre - so, it has always been a part of my experience. - Author: Seth Numrich

#62. I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician ... tailor. - Author: Hannah Gadsby

#63. Everyone has left me
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse. - Author: Anne Sexton

#64. I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that. - Author: Augusten Burroughs

#65. Follow the only nurse rule that can be applied to wearing a mini-skirt: it should be short enough to get to the point, and long enough to cover the important stuff, all while keeping you out of trouble. - Author: Sonja Schwartzbach

#66. Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. - Author: Paul Nurse

#67. Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true. - Author: Trevor Howard

#68. Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache. - Author: Julius And Ethel Rosenberg

#69. Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk. - Author: Kate Williams

#70. I was born once.
The doctor was late.
I made my own way out.
The nurse slapped my insolence.
"Suffocate me!" I screamed, "I shall not recant. - Author: Robert Skyler

#71. Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. - Author: Confucius

#72. Sluggish idleness
the nurse of sin. - Author: Edmund Spenser

#73. Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse. - Author: John Milton

#74. Walt Whitman, who worked as a nurse in the hospital wards, that the harrowing experience made one's "little cares and difficulties" disappear "into nothing. - Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

#75. What now? We can't go to my place or the hospital or the fight club. Should we lay low at the grocery store? - Author: Lisa Kessler

#76. 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. - Author: Richard Carmona

#77. Instead of finding myself in the future, I traveled about fifty metres along the sidewalk at 200mph before finding myself in a bush. When asked by the nurse filling out the hospital accident reports 'Cause of accident?' I stated, 'time travel attempt' but she wrote down 'stupidity'. - Author: David Thorne

#78. Finding a good nurse is not just about checking off a list of skills the nurse can perform; it's also about finding someone who is a good fit for your home. - Author: Charisse Montgomery

#79. My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think. - Author: Matthew Morrison

#80. I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep."
"That's all," Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, "a long clean sleep. - Author: Annie Fisher

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

#82. My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to. - Author: Willem Dafoe

#83. Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles. - Author: Agatha Christie

#84. It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs. - Author: Jon Stewart

#85. (Wine is) the nurse of old age. - Author: Galen

#86. I sank into the chair and checked to see if the charge nurse could see me - not if I didn't lean out too far. The night was looking up! Two patients who ought to sleep all night long, and an Internet connection. How lucky was I? Pretty damn lucky, at least until someone needed a diaper change. - Author: Cassie Alexander

#87. 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. - Author: Roz Chast

#88. The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it - Author: Maimonides

#89. It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. - Author: Quintilian

#90. Alice, you're not going to get cancer from the cell phone. Especially not from a few minutes on the cell phone." "Meow." Alice sighed. "It's not that I don't trust you, Mommy, but you're not a nurse. Or a doctor. Or a scientist." "A scientist!" Noomi said, giggling. "Scientists - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#91. I cleared my throat and looked up at him. "I'll just get dressed and meet you in the hall."
He nodded. "I'll have the nurse ready your chariot."
"My chariot?"
He shrugged sheepishly. "I thought that sounded better than wheelchair."
I grinned. "Totally better. - Author: Cambria Hebert

#92. When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier. - Author: John Redwood

#93. Anyway, this other nurse and I used to jump around in our underwear and kiss each other for fun. Oh wait, what I meant to say was that I answered phones and filed things. - Author: Amy Poehler

#94. I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose ... it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out. - Author: Ray Toro

#95. By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics. - Author: Susanna Kaysen

#96. 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. - Author: Idris Elba

#97. I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse. - Author: James M. Barrie

#98. Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. - Author: Norman Cousins

#99. Do you like eighties music, Nurse Willowes?" "Can we discuss the oldies another time?" "What? What? The oldies? I've already had a man kicking in my ribs, and now you pull out my heart." "Hey! - Author: Joe Hill

#100. Bogdan screamed as Lada - Ladislav, now five, refused to answer to her full name - bit down on his thigh. He punched her. She bit harder, and he cried for help.
"If she wants to eat your leg, she is allowed," the nurse said. "Quit screaming or I will let her eat your supper, too. - Author: Kiersten White