Nursing Quotes - Page 12

• In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Half, Streets

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• Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.

  Socrates

  Mother, Desire, Kind

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• I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.

  John Muir

  Memories, Cutting, Kentucky

  John Muir, William Frederic Badè (1998). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Patient, Illness

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.17, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Patient

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.34

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• Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mother, Country, Taught Us

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

  Jeff Merkley

  School, Degrees, Rooms

  "A Historic Victory for Health Care Reform" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2009.

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• Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.

  Steven Levitt

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Song, Teaching

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• Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

  Monica Dickens

  Blood, Fever, Disease

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• I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

  Clara Barton

  War, Sleep, Fighting

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• There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sadness, Self, Purpose

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Men, Looks

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.760, Xist Publishing

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• I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Girl, Father, Home

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

  Kim Edwards

  Lonely, Strong, Jobs

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• Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

  Sander Levin

  Jobs, Teaching, Men

  "The Fight for Women’s Equality Continues" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

  Florence Nightingale

  Should Have, Nurse, Sick

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• I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

  Ida B. Wells

  Country, Baby, Believe

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.244, University of Chicago Press

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• When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard

  Kate Hudson

  Hours, Hard

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• Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

  Florence Nightingale

  Years, Law, Two

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.6

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• A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

  Florence Nightingale

  Air, Nurse, Rooms

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.9, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

  Frances Lear

  Believe, Age, Rehabilitation

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• My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

  J. G. Ballard

  Race, Doors, Medical Profession

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• I'm going to have cute boobs 'til I'm 90, so there's that. I'll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I'll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.

  Christina Applegate

  Cute, Home, Bridges

  "Good Morning America" Interview, August 19, 2008.

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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  Florence Nightingale

  Motivational, Fear, Women

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" by John Cook, (p. 479), 2007.

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