“There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know- I've gone… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Note to self: In your prayers tonight, be sure to thank God for making (a) that unbelievably hot nurse, (b) compression shorts,… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the… — James Lind Copy Share Image
“Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green,… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Nurses are natural kleptos. You don’t want to be in a room without enough supplies, so every time you walk past the… — Cassie Alexander Copy Share Image
You can't care that much about what people think. Everyone is going to have an opinion. What I can do is do… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but… — Shirley Bassey Copy Share Image
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them,… — Timothee de Fombelle Copy Share Image
It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandmother bought me a set of Encyclopedia Britannica's when I was little, and I remember sitting on the floor reading through… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the… — Virginia Henderson Copy Share Image
Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“in my first American class—a freshman chemistry class during the 1969-70 academic year— they looked at me as though I was supposed… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots… — David Almond Copy Share Image
Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the… — Jennifer L. Knox Copy Share Image
If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
