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Quotes About Care

Nurses can take the pressure.
~ Nursing joke
When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.
~ Author Unknown
Nurses are patient people.
~ Nursing joke
If love can't cure it, nurses can.
~ Author Unknown
Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.
~ Author Unknown
You know you're a nurse if… you triage the laundry at home.
~ Donna Wilk Cardillo, R.N.
Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day — they make a difference every day!
~ Author Unknown
Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!
~ Donna Wilk Cardillo, R.N.
A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.
~ Terri Guillemets
We'd all be worse without a nurse.
~ Author Unknown
In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.
~ Author Unknown
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. What he does is to subject them to treatment which ensures their having the finest colour and the sweetest scent.
~ Jean Cocteau
The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden, or stretches her aching limbs... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly, or selfishly!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1843
Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
~ Charles Kingsley
Safety always, always safety.
~ Saying, c.1913
Safety never takes a holiday.
~ Author Unknown
Don't fall prey to the illusion that duty is only to others — you have just as much a duty to care for yourself.
~ Terri Guillemets
Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.
~ Gordon T. Smith
Some people feed you with love.
~ Graham Joyce
Invalids were habitually hated by their carers. It took a special government grant, instituted in 1850 in the Seine and Loiret départements, to persuade poor families to keep their ailing relatives at home instead of sending them to that bare waiting room of the graveyard, the municipal hospice. When there was just enough food for the living, the mouth of a dying person was an obscenity.
~ Graham Robb
As the disclaimer a few pages back highlights, I am not a doctor. But let me ask you this: How helpful has your doctor been?
~ Grant Petersen
You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable." "You enjoy being nurtured?" "Well, that isn't all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to grow and find my true story, my purpose. You seem to want to be there when I see new things. You want to share and enjoy my discoveries.
~ Greg Bear
I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.
~ Greg Behrendt
I want to plant a little garden with you now take care of a piece of the earth somehow and tend it when we're old and gray and try to straighten up and say, well, I'm so glad to see you today hey baby hey baby hey baby hey
~ Greg Brown