Nursing Quotes - Page 11

• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, God, Past

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

  Caroline Norton

  Soldier, Tears, Dying

  "Bingen on the Rhine" l. 1 (1850)

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  You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

  Clara Barton

  Thinking, Needs, You Like It

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• Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

  Dennis Miller

  Inspirational, Children, Home

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better.

  Florence Nightingale

  Use, Want

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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• The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

  Maimonides

  Health, Medicine, Suffering

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.

  Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland

  Motivational, Baby, Challenges

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• Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Baby, Trouble, Grows

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• In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

  Rowan Pelling

  Mother, Baby, Teenager

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• I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Father, Women, Done

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• The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

  Herman Melville

  Lonely, Stars, Memories

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.138, Velvet Element Books

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• I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Heart, People, Phrases

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.117, Macmillan

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• I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.

  Roz Chast

  Past, Thinking, Nurse

  "First Feed Birds, Then Procrastinate". Interview with Cara Buckley, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2009.

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• Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

  James Lileks

  Death, Home, Long

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• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Sick, Principles

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sick, Skins, Bed

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.64

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• All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

  Florence Nightingale

  Taken, Years, Effort

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.1

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• When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Mother, School, Doctors

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

  Criss Jami

  Jobs, Laughter, Heart

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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• I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Motivational, Tattoo, Workout

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• I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work.  As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

  Nia Long

  Mother, Baby, Pumps

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• Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

  Jane Austen

  Sick, Weakness, Here And There

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.351

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• When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Believe, Teaching

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Life by life and love by love
  We passed through the cycles strange,
  And breath by breath and death by death
  We followed the chain of change.
  Till there came a time in the law of life
  When over the nursing sod
  The shadows broke and the soul awoke
  In a strange, dim dream of God.

  Langdon Smith

  God, Dream, Life And Love

  Langdon Smith (1909). “Evolution: A Poem”

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