Nursing Quotes

192 Nursing quotes by 147 unique authors

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light. — Florence Nightingale
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving… — Florence Nightingale
The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations… — Florence Nightingale
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do… — Florence Nightingale
Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. — Confucius
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good… — Finley Peter Dunne
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. — Hippocrates
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of… — Florence Nightingale
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,… — Florence Nightingale
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has… — Florence Nightingale
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,… — Florence Nightingale
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature. — Florence Nightingale
Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security:… — Unknown Author
The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. — Jodi Picoult
When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard — Kate Hudson
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 be the envy… — Christina Applegate
I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump… — Nia Long
I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I… — Roz Chast
I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a… — Natalie Merchant
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If… — Monica Dickens
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the… — Virginia Henderson
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness… — Unknown Author
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. — Unknown Author
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those… — Desmond Tutu
I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing,… — Spencer W. Kimball

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