Nurse Quotes

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

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.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

It just kills me to see people lose someone they love, so I want to do as much as I can: give money to doctors and hospitals; get nurses in there that care; put a smile on a little kid's face.

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.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula, so I'm proud to say we made

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)

The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...