Nursing famous quotes
07-08-2025
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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 -
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter -
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 -
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 -
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?
-- Betty Friedan -
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 -
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.
-- Bruce Aidells -
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
-- Caroline Norton -
I'm going to have cute ***** 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best ***** in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.
-- Christina Applegate -
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 -
Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
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 -
You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.
-- Clara Barton -
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
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 -
A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.
-- David Suzuki -
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 -
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
-- Debra Messing -
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 -
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
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 -
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
-- Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland -
I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.
-- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
-- Elizabeth Kenny -
They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.
-- Emilie Schindler -
I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
-- Emo Philips -
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 -
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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
-- Florence Nightingale -
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
-- Florence Nightingale -
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 -
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
-- Florence Nightingale -
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 -
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
-- Florence Nightingale -
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
-- Florence Nightingale -
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
-- Florence Nightingale -
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone cures. ... And what [true] nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
-- Florence Nightingale -
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 -
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
-- Florence Nightingale -
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 -
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
-- Florence Nightingale -
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
-- Florence Nightingale -
What do you want to do with me?" she asked. You had an unpleasant tumble." He nodded toward the unfamiliar creatures. "My Ganmede friends and I are nursing you back to health, that's all." By drugging me?" (Molly and Arch)
-- Frank Beddor -
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 -
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
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 -
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace - The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders - around the world - will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century
-- Hildegard Peplau -
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
-- Hippocrates -
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 -
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.
-- James Lileks -
There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.
-- Jeff Merkley -
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.
-- Jennifer Weiner -
Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
-- Jo Brand -
Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.
-- Jodi Picoult -
It (nursing) comes more from care than study.
-- Johanna Spyri -
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
-- John Darnielle -
I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.
-- John Muir -
The state is the nursing mother of human culture.
-- Joseph Alexander Leighton -
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 -
Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.
-- Judi Evans -
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard
-- Kate Hudson -
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
-- Kenneth Clarke -
Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in this town wants you." She laughed. "Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by." His gaze drifted over her. "I can believe that.
-- Kerrelyn Sparks -
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 -
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
-- Lois Capps -
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
-- Louis Leakey -
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
-- Maimonides -
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
-- Malcolm Mclaren -
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 -
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 -
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.
-- Michael C. Burgess -
Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
-- Michael N. Castle -
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease .....
-- Monica Dickens -
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.
-- Monica Dickens -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work.  As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.
-- Nia Long -
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 -
If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world orders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home.
-- Pat Buchanan -
Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the great nurses out there!
-- Rebecca Lim -
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 -
My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.
-- Rickie Lee Jones -
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 her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
-- Robert Burns -
By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.
-- Robert Kuttner -
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 -
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 -
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
-- Sander Levin -
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
-- Simone Weil -
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
-- Stephen Ambrose -
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
