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Quotes About Nurse

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
~ Jimmy Carter
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, Neil Gaiman
I have seen a lot of ugly things as a trainee and as a nurse, but they don't bother me very much. It's not that the familiarity hardens one; it is rather that one learns the knack of channelling one's emotions around the ugly thing.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
When the smell of her perfume, something that reminded him of faint spicy blossoms and spring, wasn't wreathed in a cloud around him. Maybe it was magic. Was she one of the creatures from the many Scottish tales his nurse had told him as a child?
~ Karen Ranney
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
~ Homer
Sickness is a result of the fall, and healing is anticipatory of the new heavens and the new earth; therefore, whether someone works as a nurse, a veterinarian, or a gardener, he or she is not beyond God's commitment to his creation. The same can be said for many pursuits.
~ Ian K. Smith
The journal preserved her dignity; she might look and behave like and live the life of a trained nurse, but she was really an important writer in disguise. And at a time when she was cut off from everything she knew - family, home, friends - writing was the thread of continuity. It was what she had always done.
~ Ian Mcewan
When my mother entered, wearing her nurse's outfit, her arms full of magazines, we must have said, "Hi Mom" too quickly, because she immediately became suspicious. You can see that in your mother's face right away, that "What did you kids do?" look.
~ Mitch Albom
Here, he's resting on the examining table. Pulse seventy-two. Here, he grabs the nurse's head and pulls her down to him. Here, he is subdued by the attendant. He didn't resist, by the way, though the attendant dislocated his shoulder. Do you notice the strange thing? His pulse never got over eighty-five. Even when he tore out her tongue.
~ Thomas Harris
The nurse expelled air. "Who knows? The X-ray technicians went on strike. We're run off our feet." She hurried off to answer a doctor's call from the corridor. Great. The season of grèves. Spring must be coming.
~ Cara Black
Probablemente no hay escasez de chicas que quieren jugar a la enfermera con él.
~ Gayle Forman
Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: "You name them and when they get sick, you nurse them back to health. [Now] servers are [treated] like cattle. You number them and when they get sick, you shoot them.
~ Gene Kim
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
~ Georg Brandes
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
~ George Barrell Cheever
This book was started during the first wave of COVID pandemic, when pictures of bodies loaded into refrigerated trucks were coming out of New York. It came about because an ICU nurse emailed us and asked us to post something, anything, because reading our work on her short break between grueling shifts kept her sane.
~ Ilona Andrews
When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.
~ Alan King
In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.
~ Mehmet Oz
I had discovered early at Ellis that a hospital nurse performs the same tasks day after day after day, and that an odd solace can be found in the monotony of those duties. Were it not for the steady thrum of the routine, the spectacle of unending human suffering would be a hospital nurse's undoing.
~ Susan Meissner
That was a nice save," Harlin says, sounding amused. "So detailed. Like a nurse." "Shut up, Harlin," I say, trying not to smile. "I didn't hear you offer anything better." "You sure you didn't want to tell him we were playing doctor? That might have sounded more believable.
~ Suzanne Young
I'm scared," he says. "I know," says the nurse. "I want you all to go to Hell." "That's natural.
~ Neal Shusterman
Think of my kind old nurse you once were jealous of . . .
~ Charles Baudelaire
I had no involvement with any extracurricular activities at school, mostly because the one time I tried out for cheerleading I was summoned to the nurse's office the next morning to be tested for scoliosis. Sometime
~ Chelsea Handler
Finally one of his buddies asks what happened with the nurse, why so hot for combat, and the guy says, 'All that peace, man, it felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
~ Tim O'Brien
With increased presence comes kindness and compassion - the nurse's calling cards.
~ Carmel Sheridan