Nursing Quotes - Page 5

• I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother -- cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Husband, Children

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• Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Hurt, Jobs, Nurse

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.82, Penguin

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• Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Occupation, Chance, Natural

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• Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Art, Nurse, World

  Suzanne Gordon (2012). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.19, Cornell University Press

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

  Gerda Lerner

  Attitude, Nurse, Characteristics

  Gerda Lerner (2014). “The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History”, p.16, UNC Press Books

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Acceptance, Media

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Genius, Truth Is

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.301

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• Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.

  Mother Teresa

  Sweet, Jesus, Sick

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Home, Self, Years

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, People, Community

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• The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Home, Writing

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• We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one’s abilities in planning retribution. There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can ‘get even.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Evil, Forgiving, Weakness

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• At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

  John D. MacDonald

  Relationship, Home, Commitment

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• Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

  Robert Burns

  Wrath, Sulky, Warm

  Robert Burns, “Tam O' Shanter”

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• Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Thinking, Eggs, Doctors

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• I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

  L. Frank Baum

  Husband, Eye, Men

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “Ozma of Oz: American Literature”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Nurse

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• Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Doctors, Nurse

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.894, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Men, Years

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even if there is an element of selfishness involved. Like the kids at my school might join the Key Club or Future Buisness Leaders of America, because it's a social thing and looks good on their record, not because they really want to volunteer at the nursing home. But the people at the nursing home still benefit from it, so it's better that the kids do it than not do it. And if they never did it, then they wouldn't find out that they actually liked it.

  Wendy Mass

  School, Kids, Home

  Wendy Mass (2011). “13 Gifts”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

  Jo Brand

  Fall, Mean, Issues

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS". Interview with Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  Florence Nightingale

  World, Way, Surf

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• He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most suitable day for seeding, lovers loving, mothers nursing their children—and all of this was not worthy of one look from his eye, it all lied, it all stank, it all stank of lies, it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction. The world tasted bitter. Life was torture

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Mother

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Florence Nightingale

  Women, Opportunity, Roots

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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