Children Quote by Christianna Brand

“And as they spoke - lo and behold! - there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout figure dressed…

— Christianna Brand

“Good evening, children,' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.”

— Christianna Brand

“The storyteller gave me a sideways look. “Miss Lea, it doesn’t do to get attached to these secondary characters. It’s not their story. They…

— Diane Setterfield

“her, say she would about her background, or even her family, as they were used to the barbs of the aristocracy. But to speak…

— Ellie St. Clair

“Because the minister's wife refused to leave the minister, and because my mother required a worshipful companion, she was forced to break up with…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Constant complaints were being made of incompetent attendants, and some dozen women did double duty, and then were blamed for breaking down. If any…

— Louisa May Alcott

But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched?…

— Ken Kesey

“A volunteer nurse for the British Red Cross, she followed her surgeon husband, Sir John Bradford, to northern France at the outbreak of the…

— Margot Asquith

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the…

— Anne Brontë

“Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what’s going on?”

— Jack Canfield