Best Nurse Proverbs
557 Nurse quotes by 428 unique authors
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We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
— Jennifer Echols
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Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
— Joseph Heller
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This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought about that for…
— Julia Quinn
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A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even…
— Katherine Catmull
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Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before…
— Louise Erdrich
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I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.
— Nina Jacobson
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He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest…
— Richard Yates
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And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is…
— Terry Pratchett
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Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula, so I'm proud…
— Tina Fey
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition…
— Virginia Woolf
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You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint…
— Chris Murray
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Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head,…
— Chris Bohjalian
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...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
— Herman Melville
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She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming…
— James Patterson
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Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers,…
— Jennifer Granholm
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But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What…
— Ken Kesey
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How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an…
— Marjorie M. Liu
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And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
— May Sinclair
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I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here…
— Michael Arditti
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We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the…
— Rick Riordan
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The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely…
— Sebastian Barry
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428 authors contributed a total of 557 Nurse Quotes, led by these top contributors: