Nursing Quotes - Page 4

• Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

  Florence Nightingale

  Men, Doctors, Wish

  Florence Nightingale, Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (1990). “Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters”, p.210, Harvard University Press

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• My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

  James Ellroy

  Sexy, Mother, Father

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

  Warren Beatty

  Nurse, Sometimes, Great Nursing

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• There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.

  Anne Enright

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I talked to over two hundred patients and family members about their experiences with aging, serious illnesses, and the big unfixables. But I also spoke with scores of physicians, and especially geriatricians, palliative care doctors, hospice nurses, and nursing home workers. The biggest thing I found was that when these clinicians were at their best, they were recognizing that people had priorities besides merely living longer. The most important and reliable way that we can understand what people's priorities are, besides just living longer, is to simply ask. And we don't ask.

  Atul Gawande

  Home, Nurse, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.

  Loung Ung

  Brother, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, School, Steps

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

  Liza Campbell

  School, Nurse, One Day

  Source: newwest.net

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• When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Looks, Bitterness

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body hit the ground at 4 a.m. and obviously, for any new parent, that is the most horrifying thing that could happen, right? You're exhausted and you take your tiny little baby out and you put them on the bed to change diapers before nursing and you turn around and you discover... my baby can roll! And you think you're going to die.

  Uma Thurman

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Jesus, Teaching

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• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Prayer

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• I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.

  Julie Klassen

  Children, Home, Research

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• I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

  Kay Granger

  Mother, Teacher, Teaching

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• When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.

  Christiane Northrup

  Baby, Children, Believe

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• Leave people better than you found them.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  People, Forgiving Heart, Inspirational Nurse

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• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Fire, Opposites

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• My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

  Douglas Preston

  Jobs, Hard Work, Home

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Truth, Men

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.187, UPNE

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

  Louis Leakey

  Sleep, Animal, Care

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• Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.

  T. D. Jakes

  Home, Divorce, Prison

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• There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

  Atom Egoyan

  Home, Son, Television

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.

  Florence Nightingale

  Medicine, Way, Principles

  "Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale".

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• Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

  Florence Nightingale

  Vanity, Selfishness, Firsts

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 369), 1913.

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