Nursing Quotes

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

— Margaret Fuller

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

— Confucius

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

— Johanna Spyri

Caring is the essence of nursing.

— Jean Watson

Beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Even common colds can cause fatal outbreaks in nursing homes.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

— Elizabeth Kenny

“That is what nursing has taught me above all: compassion is the greatest wisdom.”

— Tilda Shalof

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

— Tori Amos

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

— John Cage

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

— Florence Nightingale

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

— Florence Nightingale

“Three Plagues of nursing home existence: boredom, loneliness, and helplessness.”

— Atul Gawande

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

— Jodi Picoult

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

— Virginia Foxx

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

— Isaac Asimov

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,…

— Joseph Joubert

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much…

— Douglas Preston

“I work at a retirement home. I'm a CNA.” “What's that?” “It stands for Certified Nursing Assistant.” “That sounds important,” I said.…

— Richard Paul Evans

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his…

— Abraham Lincoln

“...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

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

When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something…

— Eartha Kitt

I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous…

— Tom Hodgkinson

They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned…

— Erykah Badu

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…

— Florence Nightingale

We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time…

— Emilie Schindler

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the…

— Virginia Henderson

In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable…

— Rowan Pelling

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“You're right. Many nurses nowadays don't like doing the things that nurses used to have to do. Changing sheets and collecting bedpans…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans…

— Judi Evans

There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is…

— Katherine Center

There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring…

— Wendy Mass

When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94,…

— Loung Ung