My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
“...For having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em,… — Erica Eisdorfer Copy Share Image
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My greatest achievement would be my nursing degree and my dream job that followed. I worked so hard to get where I… — Nikki Ferrell Copy Share Image
Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for… — Ian Anthony Dale Copy Share Image
College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a… — Natalie Merchant 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
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is… — Christine Bell Copy Share Image
It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information… — Katharine Kolcaba Copy Share Image
“Nursing homes have come a long way from the firetrap warehouses of neglect they used to be. But it seems we've succumbed… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand… — Jamie Tworkowski Copy Share Image
“If to be human is to be limited, then the role of caring professions and institutions—from surgeons to nursing homes—ought to be… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching. — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Copy Share Image