When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options:… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering:… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
Traditional nursing facilities are sterile institutions rather than homes - which is why many Americans do not want to live in one… — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Copy Share Image
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and… — Rebecca Lim Copy Share Image
When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We need a comprehensive renewal of the nursing care system in Germany, and quickly. The two-tier medical system must be abolished. Patients… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in… — Kerrelyn Sparks Copy Share Image
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches,… — Hildegard Peplau Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's,… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I think we need government to play a part in having a health policy that makes nursing care available for the increasing… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love,… — Linda Perhacs Copy Share Image
Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and… — Myrtle Aydelotte Copy Share Image
I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a… — Misty Upham Copy Share Image
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Most FAUers were fascinated by China but, as cultural outsiders, they were largely unprepared for the constant readjustments required by Convoy life.… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted… — Eve Hewson Copy Share Image
“Hospice deploys nurses, doctors, chaplains, and social workers to help people with a fatal illness have the fullest possible lives right now—much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
“For many nurses, especially those raised and educated in the Quaker faith, serving in the China Convoy epitomized the ideal nursing practice… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us… — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
