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
“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
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
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have… — Julia Child 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
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
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard,… — Florence Nightingale 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
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But… — John D. MacDonald 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
I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that,… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“I try to feel my own edges in the low light. I send my mind to the outer edges of me —… — Jessica Bates Copy Share Image
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades,… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be one and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We… — Langdon Smith Copy Share Image
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
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