Top Nurse Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Nurse quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Florence Nightingale
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nurse
Image of Shirley Bassey
I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.
- Shirley Bassey
Collection: Nurse
Image of Marisa Miller
Everyone in my family is a nurse except me.
- Marisa Miller
Collection: Nurse
Image of Samuel Daniel
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
- Samuel Daniel
Collection: Nurse
Image of R.L. LaFevers
You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.
- R.L. LaFevers
Collection: Nurse
Image of Lily Tomlin
Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
- Lily Tomlin
Collection: Nurse
Image of Sabrina Jeffries
Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?
- Sabrina Jeffries
Collection: Nurse
Image of Laurence Sterne
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
- Laurence Sterne
Collection: Nurse
Image of George Thorogood
On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.
- George Thorogood
Collection: Nurse
Image of Edmund Spenser
Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
- Edmund Spenser
Collection: Nurse
Image of William Wycherley
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
- William Wycherley
Collection: Nurse
Image of Jo Brand
When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners
- Jo Brand
Collection: Nurse
Image of Herbert M. Shelton
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness.
- Herbert M. Shelton
Collection: Nurse
Image of John Brown
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
- John Brown
Collection: Nurse
Image of Ray Toro
I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.
- Ray Toro
Collection: Nurse
Image of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Collection: Nurse
Image of May Sinclair
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
- May Sinclair
Collection: Nurse
Image of Timothee de Fombelle
He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.
- Timothee de Fombelle
Collection: Nurse
Image of Murong Xuecun
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.
- Murong Xuecun
Collection: Nurse
Image of Jim Harrison
The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.
- Jim Harrison
Collection: Nurse
Image of Jill Flint
I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and Im really fantastic about diagnosing things.
- Jill Flint
Collection: Nurse
Image of Sarah Kane
to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free
- Sarah Kane
Collection: Nurse
Image of Dean Winchester
I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.
- Dean Winchester
Collection: Nurse
Image of Leo Tolstoy
India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: Nurse
Image of Jon Stewart
It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.
- Jon Stewart
Collection: Nurse
Image of George Ade
Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.
- George Ade
Collection: Nurse
Image of Neal Shusterman
I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.
- Neal Shusterman
Collection: Nurse
Image of Rainbow Rowell
I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.
- Rainbow Rowell
Collection: Nurse
Image of Florence Nightingale
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nurse
Image of William Shakespeare
Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Nurse
Image of Florence Nightingale
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Nurse
Image of William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Collection: Nurse
Image of William Blake
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
- William Blake
Collection: Nurse
Image of Elisabeth Elliot
...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 place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Collection: Nurse
Image of Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Collection: Nurse
Image of Terry Pratchett
Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Nurse
Image of Alexander Pope
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
- Alexander Pope
Collection: Nurse
Image of Ilona Andrews
For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know- I've gone to Hell and you're my nursemaid.
- Ilona Andrews
Collection: Nurse
Image of Anne Sexton
Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.
- Anne Sexton
Collection: Nurse
Image of William Shakespeare
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Nurse
Image of Dorothy Parker
[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.
- Dorothy Parker
Collection: Nurse
Image of Susanna Kaysen
Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.
- Susanna Kaysen
Collection: Nurse
Image of J.R. Ward
All right, big guy, down you go." Oh,yeah. Bed. Bed was good. "And look who's here. It's Nurse Vishous.
- J.R. Ward
Collection: Nurse
Image of Edna O'Brien
She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.
- Edna O'Brien
Collection: Nurse
Image of Gloria Steinem
anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.
- Gloria Steinem
Collection: Nurse
Image of Jonathan Swift
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
- Jonathan Swift
Collection: Nurse
Image of Edith Sitwell
What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.
- Edith Sitwell
Collection: Nurse
Image of Hilaire Belloc
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
- Hilaire Belloc
Collection: Nurse
Image of Desmond Tutu
When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: Nurse
Image of Guillermo del Toro
...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.
- Guillermo del Toro
Collection: Nurse