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Quotes About Nurse

In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help expand health care to isolated farm and mountain areas. They recommended to do that partly by deploying trained nurse practitioners in places with no doctors to provide primary care they were trained to provide.
~ William J. Clinton
My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
~ Maeve Binchy
My grandma was a nurse, and she helped a lot of transgender clients, so growing up, I was very aware of that, and my family and I have always been very supportive of people going through this.
~ Farrah Abraham
Athens, nurse of men.
~ Sophocles
After five days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse.
~ Spike Milligan
Waiting for the operation, there was a gentle tap on the door. In came a strapping nurse. 'Good morning', she shrilled, whipped back the bedclothes, upped with his nightshirt, grabbed his willy, lathered furiously around it till it looked like the Eddystone Lighthouse in a storm, then shaved the whole area till it looked like an oven-ready chicken. 'Excuse me, nurse', said Looney, 'why did you knock?
~ Spike Milligan
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
She would sit and read, the book under the waver of light. She would glance now and then down the hall of the villa that had been a war hospital, where she had lived with the other nurses before they had all transferred out gradually, the war moving north, the war almost over. This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Let's face it - being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form.
~ Kate Gosselin
My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse; my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter.
~ Will Poulter
My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.
~ Nicholas Lea
I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
~ Patty Judge
Miss Timms must have been out of her mind," he observed bitterly. "She said that you were utterly trustworthy and sensible." "Well, I hope I am when it comes to being a nurse. But today I'm just me, doing what I want to do." She took his hand gently from her arm. "Goodbye, Mr Werdmer ter Sane.
~ Betty Neels
I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.
~ Susanna Kaysen
You could also request to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to request to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.
~ Susanna Kaysen
By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.
~ Susanna Kaysen
The nurse jabbed the needle in, and I winced, savoring the tiny hurt.
~ Sylvia Plath
On Fridays the little children come To trade their hooks for hands. Dead men leave eyes for others. Love is the uniform of my bald nurse. Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. The vase, reconstructed, houses The elusive rose. Ten fingers shape a bowl for shadows. My mendings itch. There is nothing to do. I shall be good as new.
~ Sylvia Plath
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. Our only health is the disease If we obey the dying nurse Whose constant care is not to please But remind of our, and Adam's curse, And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse. The whole earth is our hospital Endowed by the ruined millionaire
~ T.S. Eliot
Soothed her with scopoline.
~ Talmage Powell
The Manchus drank tea with a lot of milk. In her case, the milk came from the breasts of a nurse. Cixi had been taking human milk since her prolonged illness in the early 1880s, on the recommendation of a renowned doctor. Several wet nurses were employed, and took turns to squeeze milk into a bowl for her. The nurses brought their sucking babies with them, and the woman who served her the longest stayed on in the palace, her son being given education and an office job.
~ Jung Chang
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? —SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, Part II
~ Justin Cronin
And there goes Flint, wet nurse of the Spanish Main … No
~ Kage Baker
Verstehe. Nach meiner Krankenschwester verging mir auch der Appetit.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt