Nursing Home Residents Quotes

#1. 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

#2. One ought to be just before one is generous

Winston Churchill

#3. Always be yourself.
There is nothing else you can be. How can you be not yourself? How could you be something else than what you are?

Helena Kalivoda

#4. If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Jim Rohn

#5. You just can't say lesbianism hurts women's golf. It's more correct to say homophobia does.

Donna Lopiano

#6. Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Dorothy Day

#7. I cannot stop the world from moving. All I can do is be prepared for when it does.

Danielle L. Jensen

#8. When a man meets his make, society begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

Joanne Harris

#10. Obtaining a certificate in nursing assistant trains students to provide quality care to residents in nursing homes.

Cassie Brode

#11. My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.

Jim Furyk

#12. From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

Tony McCoy

#13. Almost two million people over age 65, or nearly 6 percent of those Americans (excluding nursing home residents), rarely or never leave their homes, researchers recently reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. The homebound far outnumber the 1.4 million residents of nursing homes.

Anonymous

#14. Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Paul Fussell

#15. I've got my own toilet." -- Grace Harper

Christine Amsden

#16. Some people like to play golf; I like to come to work.

Tom Benson

#17. It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

Jonathan Sacks

#18. Dawn is coming. I can feel it pressing against the darkness like a weight about to tear the night apart.

Laurell K. Hamilton